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/ˈɒktɪv/ · noun
(music) An interval of twelve semitones spanning eight degrees of the diatonic scale, representing a doubling or halving in pitch frequency..
The melody jumps up an octave at the beginning, then later drops back down an octave.
The singer was known for astounding clarity over her entire five-octave range.
The octave has a pitch ratio of 2:1.
The bass starts on a low E, and the tenor comes in on the octave.
With mournful melody it continued this octave.
If they always do a lateral parry quarte, and never a semicircular octave, that gives you an opening.
[…] the Chamberlains' records of the companies' visits to their towns are, for the most part, not precisely dates, but merely group them together […] within their annual accounting period which normally […] ran from Michaelmas (29 September) to Michaelmas, or its octave (6 October).
It was extended to the entire Church by 1814, and then in 1913 the feast was transferred to September 15, the octave day of the Birth of Mary and the day after the Exaltation of the Cross.
Use octave when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Octave means (music) An interval of twelve semitones spanning eight degrees of the diatonic scale, representing a doubling or halving in pitch frequency..
Common synonyms include musical octave.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The melody jumps up an octave at the beginning, then later drops back down an octave.
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