One common measurement for quilting purposes is the Fat Quarter. A fat quarter of fabric is 1/2 the width of the fabric (usually about 22 inches) by a 1/2 yard of length or 18 inches. A piece of cotton measuring 18 x 22 inches is what is generally referred to by the term Fat Quarter. Many quilts typically use 20 of these Fat Quarters in their design of the top or front side.
â¢ TONAL LANGUAGE (noun). The noun TONAL LANGUAGE has 1 sense: 1. a language in which different tones distinguish different meanings. Familiarity information: TONAL LANGUAGE used as a noun is very rare.ypernyms (tonal language is a kind of...): natural language; tongue (a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language). Meronyms (parts of tonal language): tonal system; tone system (the system of tones used in a particular language or dialect of a tone language).
mid-14c., from Old French ton (13c.), from Latin tonus a sound, tone, accent, literally stretching (in Medieval Latin, a term peculiar to music), from Greek tonos vocal pitch, raising of voice, accent, key in music, originally a stretching, taut string, related to teinein to stretch (see tenet).