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Definition of twelve-note adjective from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

twelve-note

adjective

(also dodecaphonic, twelve-tone) [only before noun] (music)

used to describe a system of music which uses the twelve notes in the scale equally rather than using a particular key

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