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A 'tritone' is the name for the musical interval between two pitches an augmented 4th/Diminshed 5th apart. The term 'tritone' comes from the fact that the interval between the two pitches is a full three "whole tones" apart. The use of the tritone is common in classical music where the V-I resolution is present, as well as in Jazz and Rock whenever a piece or section is in the lydian mode. The interval has a very unstable characterisic and was even known as the 'devil's interval' at one period in music history.
Tritones can be heard in the following examples:
-Bass riff of "Jerry Was A Racecar Driver" by Primus
-The first two notes of "Maria" from West Side Story ("ma - ree")
-Opening intervals on "Purple Haze" by Jimi Hendrix
-Opening two notes of the "The Simpsons" theme
tritone by Jay =) September 28, 2006
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Triton Eye 

A disease that afflicts most attendees at UCSD. Its origins are linked to the sheer lack of attractive people on campus. This results in UCSD students having ridiculously low standards for the opposite sex.
(UCSD kid): Hey! That guy's pretty cute.

(State kid): Are you kidding me?! He's a chinless, bucktoothed wideclops! And he's always staring at me with that wall-eye of his. You totally have Triton Eye.

(UCSD kid): Damn, you're right.
Triton Eye by Fro_turtle_o January 4, 2009

Triton eye 

Back in the 60's a professor in Revelle accidentally lost an eye, and because of the chaos and hecticness of seeing someone lose an eye, the ambulance people forgot to pick it up. The eye was just left there and people were too grossed out by it, so no one really picked it up. Then one day, the eye was gone. They asked all the janitors if they picked it up but they all said no. Then one day, a girl was taking a shower in the revelle dorms, and when she looked on the floor, there was the professors eye. She screamed and ran to tell her friends, but when they went back to the shower it was gone. Legend has it that the eye roams around campus peeping on people, and it has been coined the name "Triton Eye".
if you're ever in your room and you feel like you're being watched, it's the triton eye
Triton eye by Heeeeeeeyyyyyyy August 3, 2013

Triton Eye 

UCSD slang for ugly girls lowering your standard of what pretty girls are but ACTUALLY it's Dope Ass band formed at UCSD
Guy#1: Hey man that girl's kinda cute

Guy#2: Nah man, I think you have Triton Eye
Guy#1: Well I Do have their album on https :/ /tritoneye.bandcamp. com/releases

Girl: Hey , are you guys talking about the Triton Eye from https ://tritoneye. com
Guy#2: Yeah, How'd you know?
Girl: I follow them on Instagram @TritonEyeOfficial
Guy#1: Oh Wow!

triton eye 

The same as the above but with Preuss School UCSD students being effected by Preuss School UCSD males.
After six years, the Triton Eye began to effect Chris as he realized that despite his better judgment Nicole was attractive.
triton eye by Henok Yemane January 12, 2008

Tritone Shading 

A style of shading (commonly used in comic books and anime) which depicts materials with up to three banded or posterized colours.
Guy1: Dude, how many shades of orange should the character's hair be?

Guy2: Make it three: amber, yellow-orange and peaking white for the gloss effect.

Guy1: So tritone shading it is?

Guy2: Yip.