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Originally Posted by bFooz
...and the other one is "whole".
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The term "whole" is redundant in this sense though. "Tone" is all that's needed since the fact that it's "whole" is implied. If the interval is less than a tone, then the word "tone" will be prepended, i.e. "quartertone" or "semitone" - or even "half-tone" if you really must! Conversely, an interval wider than one tone automatically acquires a different intervallic name anyway (such as minor third, major third, etc.).
Of course, we could use similar intervallic names for tone and semitone but the terms "tone" and semitone" are useful in that they don't require any harmonic context (unlike, for example, major second/diminished third or minor second/augmented unison)