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organum | x |

As a noun organum

is (music) a type of medieval polyphony which builds upon an existing plainsong.

As a letter x is

the twenty-fourth letter of the.

As a symbol x is

voiceless velar fricative.

organum

English

(wikipedia organum)

Noun

(organa)
  • (music) a type of medieval polyphony which builds upon an existing plainsong
  • (archaic) A method by which philosophical or scientific investigation may be conducted.
  • * 1794 , George Adams, Lectures on natural and experimental philosophy
    • He has given us an organum of a different origin and construction from that of Arislotle
  • * 1823 , Thomas Wirgman, An Entirely New, Complete and Permanent Science of Philosophy
    • Another important circumstance respecting our transcendental esthetics is, that it does not insinuate itself merely as a plausible hypothesis, but is as certain and indubitable as we can require any theory to be in order to serve as an organum .

    x

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=W, next=Y, image= (wikipedia X)

    Etymology 1

    Letter

  • The twenty-fourth letter of the .
    • See also
    (Latn-script)

    Cardinal number

    (mul-number)
  • The number 10.

    • Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
  • strike

    • Etymology 2

    Possibly from skull and crossbones

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
    • Derived terms
    * XXX

    See also

    {{Letter , page=X , NATO=X-ray , Morse=–··– , Character=X , Braille=? }} Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur Roman numerals ----