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Major meaning
Greater in dignity, rank, importance, significance, or interest. | Greater in number, quantity, or extent. | Notable or conspicuous in effect or scope.
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Seven sharps or flats make major keys (C major or C major) that may be more conveniently spelled with five flats or sharps (as D major or B major).
Since the majority of that music is written in D major, G major, or one of the corresponding musical modes, use of the D major or G major key signatures is a de facto standard.
But the problem now’s that the league risks getting their major sponsors in trouble with offering up more names, more suspensions, and possibly, a major star in a major market that draws ratings.
Which is not to say that nothing major (like, MAJOR major) takes place.
Also present were Judicial Council members Sydney Hack, a third-year international relations major, Aria Aghalarpour, a third-year political science major and Elections Committee Vice Chair Rodney Tompkins, a second-year psychology major.
Given the structural obstacles facing India’s major ports, the government drafted a bill in 2016 that would replace the Major Port Trusts Act, 1963 and bring the best practices used in the administration of non-major privately-administered ports.
The Pictou County Weeks Major Midgets will host the Steele Subaru Major Midgets of Dartmouth on Sunday after winning one of three games last weekend in Nova Scotia Major Midget Hockey League action.
This marks the fifth consecutive major tournament won by the Islanders, who in 2016-17 not only won the Ice Jam but also the Nova Scotia Major Midget Hockey League provincials, the Major Midget Atlantics, and the Telus Cup.
An example of a chord progression in which the chord roots move by the interval of a fourth would be the chord progression, in the key of C Major: "D minor/G Major/C Major" (these are all triads; three-note chords).
A warrant officer class one could be appointed to positions such as regimental sergeant major, formation sergeant major or even sergeant major of the army while still in the rank of warrant officer class one.
By some critics, the film is admired as one of Peckinpah's greatest works.sfnsfn Major Dundee main Peckinpah's next film, Major Dundee (1965), was the first of Peckinpah's many unfortunate experiences with the major studios that financed his productions.
First sergeants are addressed as 'First Sergeant (last name)', and sergeants major and command sergeants major are addressed as 'Sergeant Major (last name)'.
For instance, a major seventeenth can be decomposed into two octaves and one major third, and this is the reason why it is called a compound major third, even when it is built by adding up four fifths.
For instance, a major tenth (two staff positions above one octave), also called compound major third, spans one octave plus one major third.
For typical spectral envelopes in the central range, the second roughest interval is the major second and minor seventh, followed by the tritone, the minor third ( major sixth ), the major third ( minor sixth ) and the perfect fourth (fifth).
General Forrest sent additional communiques to Major Lionel F. Booth demanding total surrender, but Major Booth had been fatally shot in the battle and the command of Fort Pillow had already been assumed by Major William F. Bradford.
If opener rebids a major suit you have found a 4-4 fit and ability to trump club losers (or, alternately, to sluff the other major on club winners and then to trump losers in the other major).
In addition to holding major legislative power, the Chinese government owns vital resources including land, banks, and major media networks and wields major influence over other stakeholders.
One groove, the major groove, is 22 Å wide and the other, the minor groove, is 12 Å wide. citation The width of the major groove means that the edges of the bases are more accessible in the major groove than in the minor groove.
On the other hand, modulating to a key that is not related to the tonic key, such as modulating from the key of C major (the tonic) to A major or G major.