degree

the position of a particular musical note on a scale relative to the tonic
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degree

Summary

degree ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (210 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • degree's subclass of is recorded as role[2].
  • degree's subclass of is recorded as offset[3].
  • degree's Commons category is recorded as Diatonic functions[4].
  • degree's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02xplm[5].
  • degree's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Scale degrees[6].
  • degree's different from is recorded as note sign[7].
  • degree's BabelNet ID is recorded as 00025965n[8].
  • degree's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 4170311[9].
  • degree's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as scale-degrees[10].
  • degree's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2775997480[11].
  • degree's characteristic of is recorded as note sign[12].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for degree include Al-Maarij[13], a surah[14].

Why It Matters

degree ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (210 views/month).[1] degree has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] degree is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

Entities named for degree include Al-Maarij[13], a surah[14].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [13] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [14] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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