Welcome to the North Carolina Department of Revenue Online Refund Inquiry System. This system provides refund information 24 hours a day, seven days a week. We update refund information once a day. Please wait at least 24 hours before inquiring again.
diminished - (of musical intervals) reduction by a semitone of any perfect or minor musical interval; a diminished fifth. music - an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner. decreased, reduced - made less in size or amount or degree.
In jazz, the diminished seventh chord is often based on the lowered third scale degree (the flat mediant) and acts as a passing chord between the mediant triad (or first-inversion tonic triad) and the supertonic triad: in C major, this would be the chord progression E minor â Eâ­ diminished â D minor.