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augmented octave

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.94 in modern English

Syllables
aug-ment-ed oc-tave
IPA
24
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A musical interval of the Western twelve-semitone system consisting of thirteen semitones and spanning eight degrees of the diatonic scale. It is one semitone wider than a perfect octave and enharmonically equivalent to a minor ninth/compound minor second.

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Inflected Forms

augmented octaves (plural)

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What does augmented octave mean?
A musical interval of the Western twelve-semitone system consisting of thirteen semitones and spanning eight degrees of the diatonic scale. It is one semitone wider than a perfect octave and enharmonically equivalent to a minor ninth/compound minor second.

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