Octavation
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈɒktəveɪʃən/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Octavation is a noun meaning (music) Transposition by an octave.
Meaning
(music) Transposition by an octave.
More Meanings
- (astrology, rare) The relationship between two planets that are distant from each other by one eighth of a great circle (45.625 degrees)
- (mathematics) Conversion (of the expression of a number) from denary to octal notation.
- (rare) Normalization of a numerical ratio by repeated multiplication or division by 2.
Example Sentences
I arranged ‘octavations’ which seemed to me to give the two movements greater elegance and litheness.
The method provides a simple control mechanism to provide spectral morphing via the octavation parameter.
Energy is apparently transmuted by a series of octavations and that these octavations differentiate matter.
These arise when the reciprocal of the orbital periods in seconds is taken and the resulting number is equated to a frequency and finally transposed into a reference note by means of octavation.
Word Forms
- octavations
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include octaviation, octavate, octave, superoctave, contraoctave, contra-octave.
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