octavate
verb/ˈɒktəveɪt/
Etymology
First attested in 1922; formed as octav(e) + -ate (verb-forming suffix), in the musical sense after the French octavier.
- derived from octavier
Definitions
To sound one octave higher or lower.
- The string, originally divided, will continue for some time to “octavate”.
- Adolphe Sax, when he invented the saxophone, had at first only in mind the object of improving the clarinet by permitting it to ‘octavate.’
- ‘Octavate’ (i.e. overblow at the octave. Does decimate mean to overblow at the tenth? Is the Primate the fundamental note of an instrument?).
To convert (the expression of a number) from denary to octal notation.
octave (transfiguratively)
- There is an octavate of odours as well as octavates of notes in music. Like the keys of instruments, certain odours coincide or blend.
The neighborhood
- antonymdecimateantonym(s) of
- neighboroctavation
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA