octave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒktɪv/
ipa: /ˈɒkteɪv/
ipa: /ˈɑktɪv/
ipa: /ˈɑkteɪv/
rhymes: (UK) -ɒktɪv
rhymes: (UK) -ɒkteɪv
rhymes: (US) -ɑktɪv
Forms: form: octaves
Etymology: From Latin octavus (“eighth”). Doublet of octavo, ochava, and oitava.
Senses: examples: text: The melody jumps up an octave at the beginning, then later drops back down an octave.
text: The singer was known for astounding clarity over her entire five-octave range.
text: The octave has a pitch ratio of 2:1.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An interval of twelve semitones spanning eight degrees of the diatonic scale, representing a doubling or halving in pitch frequency.
examples: text: The bass starts on a low E, and the tenor comes in on the octave.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The pitch an octave higher than a given pitch.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A coupler on an organ which allows the organist to sound the note an octave above the note of the key pressed (cf sub-octave)
examples: text: With mournful melody it continued this octave.
ref: a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A poetic stanza consisting of eight lines; usually used as one part of a sonnet.
examples: text: If they always do a lateral parry quarte, and never a semicircular octave, that gives you an opening.
ref: 2009, Ray Finkleman, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: The eighth defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword out straight at knee level.
examples: text: […] the Chamberlains' records of the companies' visits to their towns are, for the most part, not precisely dates, but merely group them together […] within their annual accounting period which normally […] ran from Michaelmas (29 September) to Michaelmas, or its octave (6 October).
ref: 2000, John Southworth, Shakespeare the Player:
text: It was extended to the entire Church by 1814, and then in 1913 the feast was transferred to September 15, the octave day of the Birth of Mary and the day after the Exaltation of the Cross.
ref: 2014, Jennifer Gregory Miller, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
topics: Christianity
glosses: The day that is one week after a feast day in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church.
examples: 1870, The Night Hours of the Church, trans. Rev. J. M. Neale
Of an Octave the Office is said. or at least commemorated, (when any Sunday or Feast intervene), for eight successive days.
topics: Christianity
glosses: An eight-day period beginning on a feast day in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church.
glosses: A small cask of wine, one eighth of a pipe.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An octonion.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing
glosses: Any of a number of coherent-noise functions of differing frequency that are added together to form Perlin noise.
examples: text: Mercury then joins its higher octave and generous counterpart Jupiter early next week, and it opens gates of opportunity.
ref: 2016, Kristin Fontana, The Beach Reporter:
topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The subjective vibration of a planet.
Derived terms: augmented octave
contra-octave
diminished octave
great octave
interoctave
intraoctave
millioctave
multioctave
octaval
octavation
octave clef
octave coupler
octave flute
octave species
perfect octave
pseudo-octave
sesquioctave
subcontraoctave
suboctave
superoctave
tritave
Related terms: octavo
oct-
octave key
interval
unison
second
third
fourth
fifth
sixth
seventh
Octave in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)