(music) The symbol ♯, placed after the name of a note in the key signature or before a note on the staff to indicate that the note is to be played a semitone higher.

(music) To raise the pitch of a note half a step making a natural note a sharp. / To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper. / (transitive, obsolete) To sharpen.

plural of sharp

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sharp

(uncountable) the cutting ability of an edge; keenness. / (uncountable) the fineness of the point a pointed object. / (countable) The product or result of being sharp.

An inland port in Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO6702).

A surname. / An unincorporated community in Coffey County, Kansas. / An unincorporated community in Marshall County, Kentucky.

plural of sharping

(music) a minor key with the notes A♯, B♯, C♯, D♯, E♯, F♯, G♯

(music) the theoretical major key with A-sharp as its tonic and the notes A#, B#, C𝄪, D#, E#, F𝄪, G𝄪. Such a high number of accidentals (especially double sharps) is undesirable. Therefore, it is usually scored and referred to as its enharmonic equivalent; B-flat major.