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  2. Octave - Wikipedia

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    In music, an octave (Latin: octavus: eighth) or perfect octave (sometimes called the diapason) [2] is an interval between two notes, one having twice the frequency of vibration of the other. The octave relationship is a natural phenomenon that has been referred to as the "basic miracle of music", the use of which is "common in most musical ...

  3. GNU Octave - Wikipedia

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    GNU Octave is a scientific programming language for scientific computing and numerical computation.Octave helps in solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for performing other numerical experiments using a language that is mostly compatible with MATLAB.

  4. Octave (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Octave, Arizona, a place in the US; Octave (horse) (foaled 2004), a thoroughbred racehorse; Octave (liturgy), either the eighth day after a feast, or the whole period of those eight days; Octave celebration, a religious celebration in Luxembourg; Octave (unit), a British unit for measuring whisky; Hurricane Octave, several tropical storms

  5. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    octave above the treble staff, G 5 to G 6 [8] in altissimo Octave above the in alt octave, G 6 to G 7 in modo di In the art of, in the style of in stand An instruction to brass players to direct the bell of their instrument into the music stand, instead of up and toward the audience, thus muting the sound but without changing the timbre as a ...

  6. Octave (electronics) - Wikipedia

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    In electronics, an octave (symbol: oct) is a logarithmic unit for ratios between frequencies, with one octave corresponding to a doubling of frequency. For example, the frequency one octave above 40 Hz is 80 Hz. The term is derived from the Western musical scale where an octave is a doubling in frequency.

  7. Wikipedia : Free On-line Dictionary of Computing/O - Q

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    Wikipedia: Free On-line Dictionary of ... OCLC OC-n OCODE OCP OCR OCS octal octal forty Octave octet octothorpe OCX OD390 ODA ODBC ODC Ode ... Wikipedia® is a ...

  8. Clef - Wikipedia

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    This indicates that the pitches sound an octave lower. As the true tenor clef has fallen into disuse in vocal writings, this "octave-dropped" treble clef is often called the tenor clef. The same clef is sometimes used for the octave mandolin. This can also be indicated with two overlapping G-clefs. Tenor banjo is commonly notated in treble clef.

  9. Talk:Octave - Wikipedia

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    In English octave. Nature comes from scientific phenomenon. So, the octave relationship is a scientific phenomenon. This phenomenon is not only in musical systems every system has this phenomenon. Touch, heat, sound, color, taste, sight. There are eight natural virtues in their ranks. Six can be seen directly on it and which are the other two.