Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

octaviate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: oc-tavi-ate
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Example Sentences

"He octaviates some fragments of the tune (including the first note) without even the excuse of avoiding difficult stopping. […] The transcriber adapts chords to his instrument, sometimes octaviates or simplifies the bass on technical grounds, but a peculiarity of this setting is the inclusion of some thorough-bass realization at places where the solo part plays in unison […]"
"As the fundamentals of each fof begin to octaviate, they are desynchronized by individual envelopes, […]"
"In Marseille, I also generated some synthetic sounds with the MUSICV program. I chose a defective major-minor pitch scale, which does not exactly octaviate […]"

Etymology

Modelled on French octavier; see octavate for more.

Inflected Forms

octaviates (present, singular) octaviating (participle, present) octaviated (participle, past) octaviated (past)

Questions

What does octaviate mean?: To octavate.
Where does octaviate come from?: Modelled on French octavier; see octavate for more.

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