Oktave — 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
Oktave 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.
- octonion (mathematics) An 8-dimensional nonassociative extension of a quaternion with a real part and 7 imaginary parts (each a real multiple of a distinct square root of −1).
- ottava rima (poetry) An arrangement of stanzas of eight lines in heroic verse, with three rhymes, the first six lines rhyming alternately and the last two forming a couplet (ab ab ab cc).
octave — full definition
- noun The musical distance between one note and another note with double or half its pitch frequency, spanning eight notes of the scale.
- noun A stanza or unit of eight lines of poetry, especially the opening eight lines of a sonnet.
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