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A musical interval of the Western twelve-semitone system consisting of thirteen semitones and spanning eight degrees of the diatonic scale. It is one semitone narrower than a major ninth and enharmonically equivalent to an augmented octave.

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nth anth tenth month synth xanth panth plinth saunth teenth acanth cleanth jacinth seventh strenth nepenth corinth greenth absinth dozenth
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