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octave::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Synonyms | musical octave |
| Type of | interval, musical interval |
octave::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | church festival, religious festival |
octave::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | stanza |
Examples of octave
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The instrument is about half the size of a flute and can sound an octave higher.
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A basis of Morlet wavelets from 1-128 Hz was used, with ten wavelets per octave.
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Female chest register singers only have a low diapason of an octave to 12 notes.
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Mariah Carey, she of the five-octave vocal range, is showing off her new figure.
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With him, the octave stanza reached a high level of grace, variety, and harmony.
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The 83-song set list is fantastic and the two-octave keyboard is a blast to play.
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She has a big three-octave range and reaches high C with ease in Johnny One Note.
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Look no further than the USB-powered ultracompact M-Audio O2 two-octave keyboard.
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This is a logarithmic scale in which the octave is divided into 1200 equal parts.
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- A feast day and the seven days following it
- A musical interval of eight tones
- A rhythmic group of eight lines of verse
- In music, an octave is the interval between one musical pitch and another with half or double its frequency. Using notes, this would be the same note up or down 12 semi-tones on the chromatic scale. ...
- Octave is the eighth and final studio effort by The Moody Blues' psychedelic-era lineup, and their first release after a substantial hiatus, following the success of the best-selling Seventh Sojourn in 1972. ...
- In electronics, an octave is a doubling or halving of a frequency. The term is derived from the musical octave which similarly describes such frequency ratios, but the prefix octa-, denoting eight, has no significance in physics. ...
- Octave (foaled April 13, 2004 in Kentucky) is an American thoroughbred filly racehorse. She was sired by Unbridled's Song, who in turn was a son of 1990 Kentucky Derby winner Unbridled out of the Dr. Carter mare, Belle Nuit.
- "Octave" has two senses in Christian liturgical usage. In the first sense, it is the eighth day after a feast, reckoning inclusively, and so always falls on the same day of the week as the feast itself. The word is derived from Latin octava (eighth), with dies (day) understood. ...
- An octave is a verse form consisting of eight lines of iambic pentameter (in English) or of hendecasyllables (in Italian). The most common rhyme scheme for an octave is abba abba.
