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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

octave (eccl.) formerly pl., eighth day after a festival, period of eight days beginning with the festival XIV; (pros.) group of eight lines of verse XVI; (mus.) note eight diatonic degrees above a given note XVII; interval, or series of notes. between a note and its octave; (fencing) XVIII; group of eight XIX. — (O)F. octave, superseding semi-pop. oitieve, utave — L. octāva, fem. of octāvus eighth, f. octō EIGHT.
So octavo size of the page of a book for which the sheets are so folded that each leaf is one-eighth of a full sheet XVII, earlier in o. XVI ‘in an eighth’; abl. of L. octāvus. octet(te) (mus.) composition for eight instruments or voices; (pros.) group of eight lines. XIX. — It. ottetto, or its deriv. G. oktett; f. otto eight.
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octave

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

oc·tave / ˈäktəv; ˈäkˌtāv/ • n. 1. Mus. a series of eight notes occupying the interval between (and including) two notes, one having twice or half the frequency of vibration of the other. ∎  the interval between these two notes. ∎  each of the two notes at the extremes of this interval. ∎  these two notes sounding together. 2. a poem or stanza of eight lines; an octet. 3. the eighth day after a church festival, inclusive of the day of the festival. ∎  a period of eight days beginning with the day of such a festival. 4. Fencing the last of eight standard parrying positions.

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octave

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octave [Lat.,=eighth], in music, the perfect interval between the 1st and 8th tones of the diatonic scale. The upper note of a perfect octave has a frequency of vibration twice that of the lower, and in modern Western notation the two have the same letter name. The octave is the first overtone (see harmonic ). The range of the male voice is roughly an octave below that of the female; men and women supposedly singing in unison actually sing in octaves.

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octave

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music | 1996 | | Copyright

octave. Interval of 8 notes, counting bottom and top notes. Notes an octave apart have same letter-names. Interval from, say, D to next D above is perfect octave; from D up to D♭ and from D up to D♯ are diminished and augmented octaves respectively. Also double octave, 2 octaves; at the octave, to be perf. octave higher than written; in octaves, to be perf. with each note doubled one or more octaves above or below.
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Octave

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church | 2000 | | Copyright

Octave. In Christian liturgical use, the eighth day after a feast, reckoning inclusively. The term is also used of the whole period of eight days, during which the observance of certain major feasts came to be continued. In the RC Church only Christmas and Easter are now so observed.
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octave

World Encyclopedia | 2005 | Copyright

octave In music, the interval between any given note and another one that is exactly twice (or half) the frequency of the first and thus, acoustically, a perfect consonance. In Western music, it encompasses the eight notes of the diatonic scale.
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions | 1997 | | Copyright

Octave. The period of eight days beginning with a Christian feast (i.e. until the same day of the next week), during which it may continue to be celebrated.
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octave

A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition | 2005 | | Copyright

octave A cask for wine containing one‐eighth of a pipe, about 13 imperial gallons (59 L).
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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

octave •active • captive •festive, restive •dative, native, stative •fictive • unitive • octave • costive •emotive, motive, votive •furtive • appraisive

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