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
The first two stanzas of a sonnet, consisting of four verses each; a stanza of eight lines
The interval between a given musical tone and one with double or half the frequency
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
An interval of eight tones on a diatonic scale, representing a doubling or halving in pitch
A doubling or halving of a frequency (e g , One octave higher than 100 Hz is 200 Hz and one octave lower than 100 Hz is 50 Hz ) Ohm: The basic unit of electrical resistance (e g , One ohm is defined as the resistance that causes one volt to drop for each amp flowing through the resistance ) Oscillator: A circuit that causes its output to vary periodically (e g , We used a sine wave oscillator to tune Ralphs woofer box )
A stanza of eight lines, especially the first eight lines of an Italian or Petrarchan sonnet (See also Ballade, Ottava Rima, Sonnet)
A pitch interval of 2: 1 The tone whose frequency is twice that of the given tone
A musical interval of the Western twelve-semitone system consisting of thirteen semitones and spanning eight degrees of the diatonic scale. It is one semitone wider than a perfect octave and enharmonically equivalent to a minor ninth/compound minor second
A musical interval of the Western twelve-semitone system consisting of eleven semitones and spanning eight degrees of the diatonic scale. It is one semitone narrower than a perfect octave and enharmonically equivalent to a major seventh
A musical interval of the Western twelve-semitone system consisting of twelve semitones and spanning eight degrees of the diatonic scale. It is enharmonically equivalent to an augmented seventh and is commonly referred to as an octave
born Jan. 18, 1888, London, Eng. died Jan. 27, 1989, Compton Manor, near Winchester, Hampshire British aircraft designer. He taught himself to fly in 1910 and won a prize for the longest flight to the European continent. In 1912 he founded Sopwith Aviation Company, Ltd., which in World War I built such planes as the Camel, the Pup, and the Triplane. His Hawker Aircraft Company produced the Hurricane fighter of World War II and later the Harrier, a vertical-takeoff jet fighter. He was chairman of the Hawker Siddeley Group, successor to his earlier company, until 1963