| 单词 | octave |
| 释义 | octave —octaval /ok tay"veuhl, ok"teuh-/, adj. /ok"tiv, -tayv/, n. 1. Music. a. a tone on the eighth degree from a given tone. b. the interval encompassed by such tones. c. the harmonic combination of such tones. d. a series of tones, or of keys of an instrument, extending through this interval. 2. a pipe-organ stop whose pipes give tones an octave above the normal pitch of the keys used. 3. a series or group of eight. 4. Also called octet. Pros. a. a group of eight lines of verse, esp. the first eight lines of a sonnet in the Italian form. Cf. sestet (def. 1). b. a stanza of eight lines. 5. the eighth of a series. 6. Eccles. a. the eighth day from a feast day, counting the feast day as the first. b. the period of eight days beginning with a feast day. 7. one eighth of a pipe of wine. 8. Fencing. the eighth of eight defensive positions. adj. 9. pitched an octave higher. [1300-50; ME < L octava eighth part, n. use of fem. of octavus, equiv. to oct- OCT- + -avus adj. suffix] |
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