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English

Noun

  1. (music theory) An interval of eight tones on a diatonic scale, representing a doubling or halving in pitch.
  2. : The melody jumps up an octave at the beginning, then later drops back down an octave.
  3. : The singer was known for astounding clarity over her entire five-octave range.
  4. (music theory) The pitch an octave higher than a given pitch.
  5. : The bass starts on a low E, and the tenor comes in on the octave.
  6. The eighth defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword out straight at knee level.


Translations

  • Croatian: {{t-|hr|oktava|f}}
  • Icelandic: áttund
  • Japanese: {{t+|ja|オクターブ|tr=okutābu|sc=Jpan}}
  • Croatian: {{t-|hr|oktava|f}}

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Category:Prosody

el:octave fr:octave fy:octave io:octave pl:octave ru:octave fi:octave ta:octave vi:octave zh:octave

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Octave \Oc"tave\, a.
Consisting of eight; eight. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Octave \Oc"tave\, n. [F., fr. L. octava an eighth, fr. octavus
eighth, fr. octo eight. See Eight, and cf. Octavo,
Utas.]
1. The eighth day after a church festival, the festival day
being included; also, the week following a church
festival. "The octaves of Easter." --Jer. Taylor.
[1913 Webster]

2. (Mus.)
(a) The eighth tone in the scale; the interval between one
and eight of the scale, or any interval of equal
length; an interval of five tones and two semitones.
(b) The whole diatonic scale itself.
[1913 Webster]

Note: The ratio of a musical tone to its octave above is 1:2
as regards the number of vibrations producing the
tones.
[1913 Webster]

3. (Poet.) The first two stanzas of a sonnet, consisting of
four verses each; a stanza of eight lines.
[1913 Webster]

With mournful melody it continued this octave. --Sir
P. Sidney.
[1913 Webster]

Double octave. (Mus.) See under Double.

Octave flute (Mus.), a small flute, the tones of which
range an octave higher than those of the German or
ordinary flute; -- called also piccolo. See Piccolo.
[1913 Webster]

4. A small cask of wine, the eighth part of a pipe.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet octave
n 1: a feast day and the seven days following it
2: a musical interval of eight tones [syn: musical octave]
3: a rhythmic group of eight lines of verse
Moby Dictionary
English horn , Octateuch , Spenserian stanza , antistrophe , bassoon ,
block flute , bombard , book , bourdon , burden , canto , cello , chorus ,
claribel , clarinet , clarion , concert flute , consecutive intervals ,
contraoctave , cornet , cornopean , couplet , cromorna , cymbel , degree ,
diapason , diatessaron , diatonic interval , diatonic semitone ,
distich , double contraoctave , dulciana , eight ,
eighter from Decatur , eighth , enharmonic diesis ,
enharmonic interval , envoi , epode , fifth , flute stop ,
foundation stop , four-foot octave , four-line octave , fourniture ,
fourth , gamba , gedeckt , gemshorn , great octave , half step ,
halftone , harmonic flute , heptastich , hexastich , hybrid stop ,
interval , koppel flute , larigot , less semitone , line , measure ,
melodia , melodic interval , mixture , monostich , mutation stop ,
nazard , note , oboe , octad , octagon , octahedron , octameter ,
octastich , octastyle , octavo , octet , octonary , octosyllable ,
ogdoad , one-line octave , organ stop , ottava , ottava alta ,
ottava bassa , ottava rima , parallel octaves , pentastich , piccolo ,
plein jeu , posaune , principal , quatrain , quint , quintaten , rank ,
ranket , reed stop , refrain , register , rhyme royal , rohr flute ,
second , semitone , septet , sesquialtera , sestet , seventh , sextet ,
shawm , sixth , small octave , spitz flute , stanza , stave , step , stop ,
stopped diapason , stopped flute , strain , string diapason ,
string stop , strophe , subcontraoctave , syllable , tercet ,
terza rima , tetrastich , third , tierce , tone , tone row , tremolo ,
triplet , tristich , trombone , trumpet , twelfth , two-foot octave ,
two-line octave , unda maris , unison interval , utas , verse , vibrato ,
viola , voix celeste , vox angelica , vox humana , whole step


FOLDOC Octave

A high-level interactive language by John
W. Eaton, with help from many others, like MATLAB, primarily
intended for numerical computations. Octave provides a
convenient command line interface for solving linear and
nonlinear problems numerically.

Octave can do arithmetic for real and complex scalars
and matrices, solve sets of nonlinear algebraic equations,
integrate functions over finite and infinite intervals, and
integrate systems of ordinary differential and
differential-algebraic equations.

Octave has been compiled and tested with g++ and libg++ on a
SPARCstation 2 running SunOS 4.1.2, an IBM RS/6000
running AIX 3.2.5, DEC Alpha systems running OSF/1 1.3
and 3.0, a DECstation 5000/240 running Ultrix 4.2a, and
Intel 486 systems running Linux. It should work on most
other Unix systems with g++ and libg++.

Octave is distributed under the GNU {General Public
License}. It requires gnuplot, a C++ compiler and
Fortran compiler or f2c translator.

Latest version: 2.0.16 (released 2000-01-30), as of 2000-06-26.

home (http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave).

(ftp://ftp.che.wisc.edu/pub/octave/) or your nearest {GNU
archive site}.

E-mail: .

(2000-06-27)


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