单词 | gamut |
释义 | gamut /gam"euht/, n. 1. the entire scale or range: the gamut of dramatic emotion from grief to joy. 2. Music. a. the whole series of recognized musical notes. b. the major scale. [1425-75; late ME < ML; contr. of gamma ut, equiv. to gamma, used to represent the first or lowest tone (G) in the medieval scale + ut (later do); the notes of the scale (ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si) being named from a Latin hymn to St. John the Baptist: Ut queant laxis resonare fibris. Mira gestorum famuli tuorum, Solve polluti labii reatum, Sancte Iohannes] Syn. 1. sweep, breadth, scope, reach, extent, field. |
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