octavation

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Transposition by an octave.

   • OCTAVATION (also called Pitch Control) — Changing the rate of tape speed over the playback head of a tape recorder changes the pitch of the signal being played back. If the speed is doubled, the signal will increase in pitch one octave.
   • I arranged ‘octavations’ which seemed to me to give the two movements greater elegance and litheness.
2. 2

   Normalization of a numerical ratio by repeated multiplication or division by 2.

   • 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.
3. 3

   The relationship between two planets that are distant from each other by one eighth of a…

   The relationship between two planets that are distant from each other by one eighth of a great circle (45.625 degrees)

   • This octavation will be qualified (and perhaps rendered nil) if on a day when Uranus is well aspected its octave Mercury should be adversely aspected, or vice versa.
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   1. 4

      Conversion (of the expression of a number) from denary to octal notation.

      • The inverse operation, which is termed “decimation,” together with an adequate treatment for the octavation of decimal fractions will be mentioned here without consideration of the details.
      • The author […] supplied elaborate rules for the use of the octave system and for the reducing of numbers from the decade to the octave system, and the reverse — processes which he called octavation and decimation, respectively.
      • The 18th century American mathematician Hugh Jones used the words “octavation” and “decimation” to describe octal/decimal conversions.

The neighborhood

• neighboroctavate
• neighboroctavated
• neighboroctavating