noun
a musical scale with fewer than seven notes
• Hypernyms: ↑scale, ↑musical scale
• Hyponyms: ↑pentatonic scale, ↑pentatone
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noun : an incomplete musical scale; specifically : a scale established or patterned on the omission of certain notes or tones from a complete tonal series
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gapped scale «gapt»,
a musical scale derived from a more complete system of tones by the omission of some of the tones. The pentatonic is a gapped scale derived from the diatonic scale.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.