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-- Major
key (Mus.), a key in which one and two, two and
three, four and five, five and six and seven, make major seconds, and
three and four, and seven and eight, make minor seconds. --
Major offense (Law), an offense of a
greater degree which contains a lesser offense, as murder and robbery
include assault. -- Major premise
(Logic), that premise of a syllogism which contains the
major term. -- Major scale (Mus.),
the natural diatonic scale, which has semitones between the third
and fourth, and seventh and fourth, and seventh and eighth degrees;
the scale of the major mode, of which the third is major. See
Scale, and Diatonic. -- Major
second (Mus.), a second between whose tones is a
difference in pitch of a step. -- Major sixth
(Mus.), a sixth of four steps and a half step. In major
keys the third and sixth from the key tone are major. Major keys and
intervals, as distinguished from minors, are more cheerful. --
Major term (Logic), that term of a
syllogism which forms the predicate of the conclusion.

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