1. octave - Noun
2. octave - Adjective
3. octave - Verb
The eighth day after a church festival, the festival day being included; also, the week following a church festival.
The eighth tone in the scale; the interval between one and eight of the scale, or any interval of equal length; an interval of five tones and two semitones.
The whole diatonic scale itself.
The first two stanzas of a sonnet, consisting of four verses each; a stanza of eight lines.
A small cask of wine, the eighth part of a pipe.
Consisting of eight; eight.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIn accordance with the foregoing investigations on mathematical principles, let bronze vessels be made, proportionate to the size of the theatre, and let them be so fashioned that, when touched, they may produce with one another the notes of the fourth, the fifth, and so on up the double octave. Vitruvius
Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave. Stephen Fry
You must learn to think one octave higher. Only then will you learn how implosion energy works. Viktor Schauberger
I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust. Igor Stravinsky
On 'Honeybabysweetiedoll' I used a Whammy, a Boss OC-3 octave box, a Sustainer and a Line 6 DL4 Delay Modeler. That's only on the intro, where all those weird noises are happening. Eddie Van Halen
His partitioning of the octave in the first ten bars places Varèse with Scriabin and the Schoenberg circle among the revolutionary composers whose work initiates the beginning of a new mainstream tradition in the music of our century. George Perle