octave
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Latin octavus (“eighth”). Doublet of octavo, ochava, and oitava.
Inflected forms:
form: octaves
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An interval of twelve semitones spanning eight degrees of the diatonic scale, representing a doubling or halving in pitch frequency.
pos: noun
examples: The melody jumps up an octave at the beginning, then later drops back down an octave.
The singer was known for astounding clarity over her entire five-octave range.
The octave has a pitch ratio of 2:1.
gloss: The pitch an octave higher than a given pitch.
pos: noun
examples: The bass starts on a low E, and the tenor comes in on the octave.
gloss: 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)
pos: noun
gloss: A poetic stanza consisting of eight lines; usually used as one part of a sonnet.
pos: noun
examples: With mournful melody it continued this octave.
gloss: The eighth defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword out straight at knee level.
pos: noun
examples: If they always do a lateral parry quarte, and never a semicircular octave, that gives you an opening.
gloss: The day that is one week after a feast day in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church.
pos: noun
examples: […] 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).
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.
gloss: An eight-day period beginning on a feast day in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church.
pos: noun
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.
gloss: A small cask of wine, one eighth of a pipe.
pos: noun
gloss: An octonion.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: Any of a number of coherent-noise functions of differing frequency that are added together to form Perlin noise.
pos: noun
gloss: The subjective vibration of a planet.
pos: noun
examples: Mercury then joins its higher octave and generous counterpart Jupiter early next week, and it opens gates of opportunity.
Related words: octavo
oct-
octave key
interval
unison
second
third
fourth
fifth
sixth
seventh
Octave in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Derived words: 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
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: capvuitada
lang: Portuguese
word: oitava