word | PENT |
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meaning | PENT comes from the Greek word for “five.” The Pentagon in Washington, D.C., the world's largest office building, has five sides just like any other pentagon. And a pentatonic scale in music has only five notes, rather than the seven notes of the major or minor scale. |
Tags: mwvb::root, mwvb::unit:18, mwvb::unit:18:root, obsidian_to_anki
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