Tenor (disambiguation)
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Tenor (from Latin tenor, holder, or tenere, hold) means generally:
- the true purport and effect of a deed or instrument;
- the character or usual pattern of something;
- the drift or general meaning of a statement or discourse;
- the concept, object, or person meant in a metaphor.
In specialised fields:
- Tenor (music) refers to a musical range or section higher than bass and lower than alto. Also a person, instrument, or group that performs in that range or the tenor clef they play in.
- Tenor (linguistics) refers to the relationship between participants in a discourse.
- Tenor (finance) refers to the time-to-maturity of a bond.
- Tenor is also the name of a search technology planned for KDE 4.
- A Tenor Saxophone is often colloquially referred to as a Tenor.
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