octavate

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. octave (transfiguratively) rare
    — There is an octavate of odours as well as octavates of notes in music. Like the keys of instruments, certain odours coincide or blend.
动词 v.
  1. To sound one octave higher or lower.; To resonate or sound one octave higher or lower. intransitive
    — The string, originally divided, will continue for some time to “octavate”.
  2. To sound one octave higher or lower.; To span (at least) one octave in playing a musical instrument. intransitive
    — Ability to ornament, octavate, play chords and do some improvising.
  3. To sound one octave higher or lower.; To double the pitch of (a part of itself). rare,transitive
    — A 12-string doubles the octaves of only the lower four strings…. A doubled, capoed guitar “octavates up” the top two strings.
  4. To convert (the expression of a number) from denary to octal notation. rare
    — To octavate the number one hundred the reasoning is as follows. The square of eight goes into one hundred once with remainder thirty-six. This remainder contains eight to the first power four times with remainder four. Hence to express one hundred to the base 8 we write the digits 144 which in somewhat longer form may be put as 100 = 1×8² + 4×8 + 4.

词形变化

octavates present,singular,third-person octavating participle,present octavated participle,past octavated past octavates plural

词汇关系

反义词
decimate
衍生词
octavated octavating
相关词
octavation

词源

词源 1
First attested in 1922; formed as octav(e) + -ate (verb-forming suffix), in the musical sense after the French octavier.
词源 2
First attested in the 2000, from octave + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
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