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Phrases 135
- major leagueAn association of sports teams which plays at the highest skill level of its sport, especially Major League Baseball.
- major generalA military officer in the armies of most nations, typically ranking below a lieutenant general and above a brigadier.
- B majorThe major key with B as its tonic, with the notes B, C♯, D♯, E, F♯, G♯, and A♯, the key signature of which has five sharps.
- D majorThe major key with the notes D, E, F♯, G, A, B, and C♯, the key signature of which has two sharps.
- G majorThe major key with the notes G, A, B, C, D, E, F♯, the key signature of which has one sharp.
- C majorThe major key with C as its tonic, and no sharps or flats, having the notes C, D, E, F, G, A, and B.
- E majorThe major key with the notes E, F♯, G♯, A, B, C♯, D♯, the key signature of which has four sharps.
- F majorThe major key with the notes F, G, A, B♭, C, D, E, the key signature of which has one flat.
- major keyA musical key based upon a major scale.
- major thirdA musical interval in Western music that is equal to or approximates a frequency ratio of 5/4. In twelve-tone equal temperament, it consists of four standard semitones, spans three degrees of the diatonic scale, and is enharmonically …
- Major Changes
- major scaleOne of the diatonic scales; a group of notes or musical pitches in a particular pattern, used to make melodies. The pattern for a major scale is: tone - tone - semitone - tone - tone - tone - semitone.
- Ursa MajorA large circumpolar constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a bear. It includes the familiar asterism the Big Dipper and the stars Mizar, Dubhe, and Alkaid.
- A-flat majorThe major key with A-flat as its tonic, with the notes A♭, B♭, C, D♭, E♭, F, and G, the key signature of which has four flats.
- double majorTwo main areas of study of a student working toward a degree at a college or university.
- Major CountyOne of 77 counties in Oklahoma, United States. County seat: Fairview.
- major termIn a syllogism, the term that is the predicate of the conclusion.
- Major projects
- major partiesplural of major party: A political party with a strong or dominant influence in a country's politics.
- Major Players
- Second major
- E flat majorAlternative spelling of E-flat major.
- Major medical
- Major Depression
- major partyA political party with a strong or dominant influence in a country's politics.
Compound words 36
- majorityMore than half (50%) of some group.
- majoretteA female dancer who twirls and performs stunts with a lightweight baton, whether as a solo, in a group of majorettes, or in the company of a marching band.
- nonmajorA student who is not a major (specialist in one area).
- majorallySynonym of majorly: significantly; very, very much
- majorizationA preorder on vectors of real numbers.
- majorizeTo subject to majorization.
- BlajorismThe policies of Conservative Prime Minister John Major and his successor, the Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair, seen as representing one indistinguishable social and economic outlook.
- comajorOne of multiple main areas of study of a student working toward a degree at an institute of tertiary education.
- majorateTo augment; to increase.
- majoriseAlternative form of majorize: To subject to majorization.