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n. Music The interval of eight diatonic degrees between two tones of the same name, the higher of which has twice as many vibrations per second as the lower.

n. Music A tone that is eight diatonic degrees above or below another given tone.

n. Music Two tones eight diatonic degrees apart that are sounded together.

n. Music The consonance that results when two tones eight diatonic degrees apart are sounded.

n. Music A series of tones included within this interval or the keys of an instrument that produce such a series.

n. Music An organ stop that produces tones an octave above those usually produced by the keys played.

n. Music The interval between any two frequencies having a ratio of 2 to 1.

n. Ecclesiastical The eighth day after a feast day, counting the feast day as one.

n. Ecclesiastical The entire period between a feast day and the eighth day following it.

n. A group or series of eight.

n. A group of eight lines of poetry, especially the first eight lines of a Petrarchan sonnet. Also called octet.

n. A poem or stanza containing eight lines.

n. Sports A rotating parry in fencing.

n. An interval of twelve semitones spanning eight degrees of the diatonic scale, representing a doubling or halving in pitch.

n. The pitch an octave higher than a given pitch.

n. A poetic stanza consisting of eight lines; usually used as one part of a sonnet.

n. The eighth defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword out straight at knee level.

n. The day that is one week after a feast day in the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church.

n. An eight day period beginning on a feast day in the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church.

adj. Consisting of eight; eight in number.

n. The eighth day after a church festival, the festival day being included; also, the week following a church festival.

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n. 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.

n. The whole diatonic scale itself.

n. The first two stanzas of a sonnet, consisting of four verses each; a stanza of eight lines.

n. A small cask of wine, the eighth part of a pipe.

adj. Consisting of eight; eight.

n. The eighth day from a festival, the feast-day itself being counted as the first: as, Low Sunday is the octave of Easter. The octave necessarily falls on the same day of the week as the feast from which it is counted.

n. The prolongation of a festival till the eighth day inclusive; a period consisting of a feastday and the seven days following: as, St. John the Evangelist's day (December 27th) is within the octave of Christmas. See outas.

n. In music: A tone on the eighth diatonic degree above or below a given tone; the next higher or lower replicate of a given tone.

n. The interval between any tone and a tone on the eighth degree above or below it.

n. The harmonic combination of two tones at the interval thus described.

n. In a scale, the eighth tone from the bottom, or, more exactly, the tone with which the repetition of the scale begins; the upper key-note or tonic; the eighth: solmizated do, like the lower key-note.

n. In a standard system of tones selected for artistic use, a division or section or group of tones an octave long, the limits of which are fixed by reference to a given or assumed standard tone whose exact pitch may be defined.

n. In organ-building, a stop whose pipes give tones an octave above the normal pitch of the digitals used; specifically, such a stop of the diapason variety. Also known as the principal. Also called octave-flute, octavestop.

n. Any interval resembling the musical octave in having the vibration-ratio of 1:2.

n. Specifically, in versification: A stanza of eight lines; especially, the ottava rima (which see).

n. The first two quatrains or eight lines in a sonnet. See sonnet.

n. A small cask of wine containing the eighth part of a pipe.

Consisting of eight; specifically, consisting of eight lines.

To play in octaves.

In pianoforte- and harpsichordmaking, to reinforce the tone of a digital by adding a string tuned an octave above the usual tone of the digital.

n. In fencing, the eighth guard: point low, hand moving to the right.

In music, noting a tone, note, instrument, organ-stop, etc., whose pitch is an octave above the ordinary pitch or any pitch taken for reference: as, the piccolo is an octave flute.

n. a feast day and the seven days following it

n. a musical interval of eight tones

n. a rhythmic group of eight lines of verse

"The same Mass has Dies Irae sung in octave alternation."

religious festival    church festival    musical interval    interval    stanza   

short octave    thrust in octave    subcontra octave    octave system    covered    rule of the octave    octave coupler    law of octaves    broken octaves    octave scale   

octavo    oct-   

octaval    perfect octave    augmented octave    diminished octave   

eight    eighth   

century    arpeggios    eleventh    consecutive    twelfth