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oktav — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • octave noun The musical distance between one note and another note with double or half its pitch frequency, spanning eight notes of the scale.

Senses

oktav is used for these senses in English:

  • octave (music) An interval of twelve semitones spanning eight degrees of the diatonic scale, representing a doubling or halving in pitch frequency.

octave — full definition

  1. noun The musical distance between one note and another note with double or half its pitch frequency, spanning eight notes of the scale.
  2. noun A stanza or unit of eight lines of poetry, especially the opening eight lines of a sonnet.