Gamut

Quick meaning: Gamut is a noun meaning A (normally) complete range.

Meaning

A (normally) complete range.

More Meanings

1. (music) All the notes in a musical scale.
2. All the colours that can be presented by a device such as a monitor or printer.

Example Sentences

I must begin with rudiments of Art / To teach you gamoth in a briefer sort, - - Bian. Why, I am past my gamouth long agoe.

1933?, Dorothy Parker, review of Katharine Hepburn in the Broadway play The Lake She delivered a striking performance that ran the gamut of emotions, from A to B.

THE LONDON BRIGHTON & SOUTH COAST RAILWAY. By C. Hamilton Ellis. Ian Allan. 30s. [...] In the course of its pages the author runs through the whole gamut of the locomotives that have during the period under review run on the rails of the L.B. & S.C. and its forebears.

The entire gamut of the view's changes should have been known to her; its winter aspect, spring, summer and autumn; how storms came up from the sea; how the moors shuddered and brightened as the clouds went over; she should have noted the red spot where the villas were building; and the criss-cross of lines where the allotments were cut.

Word Forms

• gamuts

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include line-up, mix, assortment, variety, portfolio, breadth.

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