The eighth defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword out straight at knee level
The day that is one week after a feast day in the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church
the eighth day after a Christian festival (or the period between these two days), counting the festival day as the first (ie counting inclusively) Thus: the Octave of 1st November, All Saints' Day, is 8th November
The eighth guard or parry, made in a low line on the sword-arm side with the wrist supinated
The eighth day after a church festival, the festival day being included; also, the week following a church festival
An octave is a doubling or halving of frequency 20Hz-40Hz is often considered the bottom octave Each octave you add on the bottom requires that your speakers move four times as much air!
An octave is a series of eight notes in a musical scale. It is also used to talk about the difference in pitch between the first and last notes in a musical scale. a) the range of musical notes between the first note of a scale and the last one b) the first and last notes of a musical scale played together (octava, from octo ; because there are eight notes in the range)
an eight-line stanza or poem, of which there are several types: ababbcbc: Chaucer's stanzaic form in The Monk's Tale abbacddc, or abbaabba: the brace octave for example, W B Yeats' "Two Songs from a Play" abababcc: see Ottava rima abaaabab: see Triolet See also Sonnet
A musical interval between two tones formed when the ratio between the frequencies of the tone is 2: 1 2