diasteman.
/dʌɪəˈstiːmə/ 1. Music. = diastem n.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > interval > [noun] > degree > in ancient Greek music
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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxxxi. 1387 Diastema is a couenable space of tweie vois oþer of mo acordyng.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Diastem, in Musick, a Name the Ancients gave to a simple Interval; in Contra-distinction to a compound Interval, which they call'd a System.
2. Zoology and Anatomy. An interval or space between two consecutive teeth, or two kinds of teeth, occurring in most mammals except man.
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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > substance or parts of teeth > [noun] > interval between teeth
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1854 Owen in Orr's Circle Sci. Organ. Nat. I. 235 A long diastema is not..peculiar to the horse.
1854 Owen in Orr's Circle Sci. Organ. Nat. I. 298 In all the apes and monkeys of the Old World..the same number and kinds of teeth are present as in man; the first deviation being the disproportionate size of the canines and the concomitant break or ‘diastema’ in the dental series for the reception of their crowns when the mouth is shut.
1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man II. xix. 324 Canine teeth which project above the others, with traces of a diastema or open space for the reception of the opposite canines.
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