Diminished (music)

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A diminished chord is a dissonant, "double-flatted" musical chord. It's accomplished by flattening the third and fifth notes of a triad or tonic and adding a dominant seventh. A C-diminished, for example, would consist of C, E-flat, G-flat, B-flat and once again C an octave higher.

See the entry under diminished chord for a more in-depth explanation.