Definition of "limma" []

• Any of several small musical intervals, such as the semitone (noun)

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• "The octave being always divided into five tones and two limmas [diatonic semitones]; by increasing the tones equally … the difference between the major and minor limma will be contracted to nothing, which … annihilates all the false consonances."
• "Khinianabi ( 'En han-nabi), Zarki-tsabtat, Khaini (' En), and Ibi-limma"
• "Statistical analysis of differential gene expression was performed using the limma and lumi R/Bioconductor packages."