perfect fourth

Meaning

Noun

A musical interval of the Western twelve-semitone system consisting of five semitones and spanning four degrees of the diatonic scale. It is enharmonically equivalent to an augmented third.

Related

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P4

Origin

The word perfect refers to the fact that so-called perfect intervals are neither major nor minor.

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