neume or neum (n m, nym)n. A sign used in the notation of plainsong during the Middle Ages, surviving today in transcriptions of Gregorian chants. [Middle English, series of notes sung on one syllable, from Medieval Latin pneuma, from Greek, breath; see pneuma.] neu·mat  ic (n-m t k, ny-) adj. |
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