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octave

/ok-tiv, -teyv/US // ˈɒk tɪv, -teɪv //UK // (ˈɒktɪv) //

八度,八度空间,八度数,八度角

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Music. a tone on the eighth degree from a given tone.the interval encompassed by such tones.the harmonic combination of such tones.a series of tones, or of keys of an instrument, extending through this interval.
    • : a pipe-organ stop whose pipes give tones an octave above the normal pitch of the keys used.
    • : a series or group of eight.
    • : Also called octet. Prosody. a group of eight lines of verse, especially the first eight lines of a sonnet in the Italian form.Compare sestet. a stanza of eight lines.
    • : the eighth of a series.
    • : Ecclesiastical. the eighth day from a feast day, counting the feast day as the first.the period of eight days beginning with a feast day.
    • : one eighth of a pipe of wine.
    • : Fencing. the eighth of eight defensive positions.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : pitched an octave higher.

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Examples

  • Andrew Rannells and Tituss Burgess teamed up for “It Takes Two” from “Into the Woods,” with Burgess jacking up his voice an octave to sing the Baker’s Wife’s part.

  • His three-octave falsetto was also used to good advantage in Mars Attacks!

  • I played up one octave, and then I wished to go on by placing my first finger on F sharp.

  • An octave coupler without such extension is incomplete and is no more honest than a stop which only goes down to Tenor C.

  • Not only did he provide sub-octave and super-octave couplers freely, but he even added a Swell Sub-quint to Great coupler!

  • Closing the holes again and blowing harder, we get the scale an octave higher.

  • If two notes at an interval of a fifth are held down, a note one octave below the lower one will be heard.