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How to pronounce “octave”
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Pronunciation guide for octave
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of octave with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- How to Fix Fashion and Protect the Planet
Look at what Mozart did with a five-octave piano.
- Definition summary
- (music) An interval of twelve semitones spanning eight degrees of the diatonic scale, representing a doubling or halving in pitch frequency.
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How to pronounce octave
How to Fix Fashion and Protect the Planet
Look at what Mozart did with a five-octave piano.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “octave”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (music) An interval of twelve semitones spanning eight degrees of the diatonic scale, representing a doubling or halving in pitch frequency.
- (music) The pitch an octave higher than a given pitch.
- (music) 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)
- (poetry) A poetic stanza consisting of eight lines; usually used as one part of a sonnet.
- (fencing) The eighth defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword out straight at knee level.
- (Christianity) The day that is one week after a feast day in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church.
- (Christianity) 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.
- (mathematics, obsolete) An octonion.
- (signal processing) Any of a number of coherent-noise functions of differing frequency that are added together to form Perlin noise.
- (astrology) The subjective vibration of a planet.
- [Verb]
- Alternative form of octavate.
- [Adjective]
- (obsolete) Consisting of eight; eight in number.
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