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Inverse
  
diminished sixth

Semitones
  
5

Just interval
  
125:96, 21:16, 64:49

Abbreviation
  
A3

Interval class
  
5

Equal temperament
  
500

Augmented third

In classical music from Western culture, an augmented third ( Play ) is an interval of five semitones. It may be produced by widening a major third by a chromatic semitone. For instance, the interval from C to E is a major third, four semitones wide, and both the intervals from C to E, and from C to E are augmented thirds, spanning five semitones. Being augmented, it is considered a dissonant interval.

Its inversion is the diminished sixth, and its enharmonic equivalent is the perfect fourth.

The just augmented third, E#, is 456.99 cents or 125:96.  Play  The Pythagorean augmented third, E+++, is 521.51 cents or 177147:131072, eleven just perfect fifths.  Play 

References

Augmented third Wikipedia