Atonic
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Atonic may refer to:
In music:
In medicine:
In linguistics:
In music:
- AtonalityAtonalityAtonality in its broadest sense describes music that lacks a tonal center, or key. Atonality in this sense usually describes compositions written from about 1908 to the present day where a hierarchy of pitches focusing on a single, central tone is not used, and the notes of the chromatic scale...
, lack of a key or tonal center
In medicine:
- AtonyAtonyPronounced In medicine, atony refers to a muscle that has lost its strength. It is frequently associated with the conditions Atonic seizure, atonic colon, uterine atony, gastrointestinal atony and choreatic atonia.Atony can also refer to the paralyzed or extremely relaxed state of skeletal...
, a muscle losing its strength
In linguistics:
- Atonic or unaccented, a syllable without stressStress (linguistics)In linguistics, stress is the relative emphasis that may be given to certain syllables in a word, or to certain words in a phrase or sentence. The term is also used for similar patterns of phonetic prominence inside syllables. The word accent is sometimes also used with this sense.The stress placed...
or pitch accentPitch accentPitch accent is a linguistic term of convenience for a variety of restricted tone systems that use variations in pitch to give prominence to a syllable or mora within a word. The placement of this tone or the way it is realized can give different meanings to otherwise similar words...