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The word <b>tone</b> is used in several different fields with different meanings.<p>In <b>music</b>, tone may be synonymous with: <ul> <li> <a href="Pitch (music)">Pitch (music)</a>, the perceived frequency of a note or sound. See also <a href="Pure tone">Pure tone</a>. <li> <a href="Note">Note</a>, the name of a pitch, or the graphic representation of that pitch in a notation system, and sometimes its <a href="Note value">Note value</a>. <li> <a href="Major second">Whole tone</a>. Cf. <a href="Semitone">Semitone</a> <li> <a href="Timbre">Timbre</a> </ul> In <b>geography</b>: <ul> <li> <a href="River Tone">River Tone</a> - a river in England <li> <a href="Tone River">Tone River</a> - a river in the Kanto region of Japan <li> <a href="Tone, Ibaraki">Tone, Ibaraki</a>, a town in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. <li> <a href="Tone District, Gunma">Tone District, Gunma</a>, a district in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. </ul> In other fields: <ul> <li> <a href="Setting tone">Setting tone</a>, a writer's attitude to their subject matter or audience; the distinctive mood created by this. <li> <a href="Tone (linguistics)">Tone (linguistics)</a> refers to discrete pitches or pitch contours used by certain languages in a meaningful manner <li><a href="Muscle tone">Muscle tone</a>, the firmness or strength of a tissue or organ. See also toning up <li> <a href="Japanese cruiser Tone"><i>Tone</i></a>, a World War II cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy named after the river <li> <i>Tones</i>, a 1986 album by <a href="Eric Johnson">Eric Johnson</a> <li> Tone, a 1970s band led by <a href="David Sancious">David Sancious</a> <li> <a href="Dual-tone multi-frequency">Dual-tone multi-frequency</a> or tone dialing (as opposed to pulse dialing) </ul>