Pentatonic Scale: Five-note pattern used in some African, Far Eastern and Native American musics: can also be found in Western music as an example of exoticism.

 

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Pentatonic Scale: Five-note pattern used in some African, Far Eastern and Native American musics: can also be found in Western music as an example of exoticism.

Offering Scale: The range of prices offered by the underwriter of a serial bond issue with different maturities.

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Phi Scale: Scale used for measuring the grain size of sediments. = -log2 (grain diameter)

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Minor Scale: A collection of seven different pitches ordered in a specific pattern of whole and half steps.