octave
Pronunciation: /ˈɒktɪv/
The English word “octave” has 12 meanings listed here.
noun
- An interval of twelve semitones spanning eight degrees of the diatonic scale, representing a doubling or halving in pitch frequency.
- The pitch an octave higher than a given pitch.
- 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)
- A poetic stanza consisting of eight lines; usually used as one part of a sonnet.
- The eighth defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword out straight at knee level.
- The day that is one week after a feast day in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church.
- An eight-day period beginning on a feast day in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church.
- A small cask of wine, one eighth of a pipe.
- An octonion.
- Any of a number of coherent-noise functions of differing frequency that are added together to form Perlin noise.
- The subjective vibration of a planet.
adjective
Etymology
From Latin octavus (“eighth”). Doublet of octavo, ochava, and oitava.
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