Octavate

Quick meaning: Octavate is a verb meaning (music) To sound one octave higher or lower.

Meaning

(music) To sound one octave higher or lower.

More Meanings

1. (mathematics, rare) To convert (the expression of a number) from denary to octal notation.
2. (rare) octave (transfiguratively)

Example Sentences

There is an octavate of odours as well as octavates of notes in music. Like the keys of instruments, certain odours coincide or blend.

To octavate the number one hundred the reasoning is as follows. The square of eight goes into one hundred once with remainder thirty-six. This remainder contains eight to the first power four times with remainder four. Hence to express one hundred to the base 8 we write the digits 144 which in somewhat longer form may be put as 100 = 1×8² + 4×8 + 4.

Word Forms

• octavates
• octavating
• octavated

Antonyms for octavate

Common opposites include decimate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include octave, octaviate, double, augment, quantize, quintate.

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