Tenor (disambiguation)

Tenor (from Latin tenor, holder, or tenere, hold) means generally:

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• the true purport and effect of a deed or instrument;
• the character or usual pattern of something;
• the drift or general meaning of a statement or discourse;
• the concept, object, or person meant in a metaphor.

In specialised fields:

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• Tenor (music) refers to a musical range or section higher than bass and lower than alto. Also a person, instrument, or group that performs in that range.
• Tenor (linguistics) refers to the relationship between participants in a discourse.
• Tenor is also the name of a search technology planned for KDE 4.