Octave

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Octave \Oc"tave\, a.
     Consisting of eight; eight. --Dryden.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  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.
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     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.
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     Note: The ratio of a musical tone to its octave above is 1:2
           as regards the number of vibrations producing the
           tones.
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     3. (Poet.) The first two stanzas of a sonnet, consisting of
        four verses each; a stanza of eight lines.
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              With mournful melody it continued this octave. --Sir
                                                    P. Sidney.
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     {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}.
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     4. A small cask of wine, the eighth part of a pipe.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  151 Moby Thesaurus words for "octave":
     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
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [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)