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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Diapason \Di`a*pa"son\, n. [L., fr Gr ? (i. e., ? ? ? the concord of the first and last notes, the octave); dia` through + ?, gen. pl of ? all: cf F. diapason. Cf {Panacea}.] 1. (Gr. Mus.) The octave, or interval which includes all the tones of the diatonic scale. 2. Concord, as of notes an octave apart; harmony. The fair music that all creatures made . . . In perfect diapason. --Milton. 3. The entire compass of tones. Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man. --Dryden. 4. A standard of pitch; a tuning fork; as the French normal diapason. 5. One of certain stops in the organ, so called because they extend through the scale of the instrument. They are of several kinds, as {open diapason}, {stopped diapason}, {double diapason}, and the like From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: diapason n : either of the two main stops on a pipe organ [syn: {diapason stop}]
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