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Meanings of octave in English

Portuguese
oitava
Catalan
octava
Spanish
octava musical

A musical interval of eight tones.

oitava
Russian
octave
Portuguese
octave
Spanish
octave
Catalan
octave

High-level programming language, primarily intended for numerical computations.

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octave
Russian
октава
Portuguese
oitava
Catalan
octava
Spanish
octava

Musical interval spanning eight staff positions, including the perfect octave (12 semitones), the diminished octave (11 semitones), and the augmented octave (13 semitones)

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Examples for "eighth"
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But I could risk going down as far as the eighth level.
Shadow prowler
2
Next month the eighth annual Maths Week will take place throughout Ireland.
The Irish Times
3
Home prices in China declined for the eighth straight month in May.
Reuters
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Miss B., the eighth case is the only well-adjuste case she cites.
The new yorker
5
It was the eighth time this season Young has scored 40-plus points.
Reuters
Usage of octave in English
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In place of answering in the fifth, it answers in the octave.
The Masters and Their Music / A series of illustrative programs ...
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Within the Petrarchan form's basic octave-sestet structure there are other sub-divisions possible.
The ode less travelled: unlocking the poet within
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The other musician perceived tones an octave higher in the affected ear.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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These comprise the principal consonant intervals within the range of one octave.
The Beautiful Necessity / Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architec...
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One octave is the range in which popular music should be written.
Writing for Vaudeville
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The song of the motor dropped an octave to a richer tone.
The Lone Wolf: A Melodrama
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He also inveighs against the disposition to play the octave basses arpeggio.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
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Unto the end, in verses, a psalm for David, for the octave.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2
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The nurse's voice slipped half an octave out of her usual range.
Dreadnought
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Should this octave be played with the fifth finger or the fourth?
The Guardian
11
She took a deep breath and forced her voice down an octave.
Beneath a southern sky
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He gives the Liszt method of working up the climax in octave triplets.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
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The octave above has double the number of vibrations of the lower note.
Practical Mechanics for Boys
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Yet, miraculously, after Mother's threat, the scratchy voice dropped an octave.
Petals from the sky
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The colour in his cheeks had risen a tone; his voice, an octave.
Complete Books of Blood
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The note is the same, I fancy, be the octave high or low.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 / A Magazin...
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oitavaoctave
Octave through the time
Octave across language varieties
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