Tone
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The word tone is used in several different fields with different meanings.
Tone may refer to:
In music:
- Pitch (music), the perceived frequency of a note or sound (see also pure tone)
- Note, the name of a pitch, or the graphic representation of that pitch in a notation system, and sometimes its note value
- Whole tone, or major second, a commonly occurring musical interval, that is, a relationship between two notes or pitches (cf. semitone)
- Rubrics Tone, one of eight musical scores used in Eastern Orthodox services.
- Timbre, the quality of a musical note or sound
In geography:
- River Tone, Somerset, England
- Tone River, Kanto region, Japan
- Tone, Ibaraki, Japan
- Tone District, Gunma, Japan
People named "Tone":
- Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763-1798), Irish republican
- Tone Loc (born 1966), American hip hop artist and actor
- Tone Tone, American hip hop artist
- Franchot Tone, American actor
- Tony "Tone" Eveready, American porn star and internet meme
Tone may also refer to:
- Tone (linguistics), the use of pitch in language to distinguish words
- Tone (literary), the mood or feeling of a literary work
- Tone (picture), Luminosity and hue, or ways to represent color and brightness in photography; see Duotone and Sepia tone
- Tone (signal), sound signal comprising one or more pitches, intended to convey a message (eg, dial-tone)
- Tone (voice), pitch in ones voice that distinguishes mood or feelings
- Tone, Japanese World War II cruiser
- Tones, 1986 album by Eric Johnson
- Tone, 1970s band led by David Sancious
- 2 Tone (or Two Tone), style of music created in England by fusing elements of punk rock and ska
- Muscle tone, the firmness or strength of a tissue or organ
- Setting tone, the conveyance of an emotion or mood by an author
- Dual-tone multi-frequency, or tone dialing (as opposed to pulse dialing)
- Tone control circuits, used to modify an audio signal before it is fed to speakers, headphones or recording devices by way of an amplifier
- The Tone Rebellion, a 1997 computer game released by The Logic Factory
- Ringtone, the sound made by a telephone to indicate an incoming call. Most often used to describe customizable sounds on mobile phones
Tone can also be referred to as the tone in a poem or story. Some examples are happy, joyful, mysterios, and sad.
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