octavation
/ˈɒktəveɪʃən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Transposition by an octave.
noun
Normalization of a numerical ratio by repeated multiplication or division by 2.
noun
The relationship between two planets that are distant from each other by one eighth of a great circle (45.625 degrees)
noun
Conversion (of the expression of a number) from denary to octal notation.
Example Sentences
- "OCTAVATION (also called Pitch Control) — Changing the rate of tape speed over the playback head of a tape recorder changes the pitch of the signal being played back. If the speed is doubled, the signal will increase in pitch one octave."
- "A French rondeau from the Roman de la Rose (12th century) first establishes the triad, then turns to the seventh, but leaves it immediately to catch the octave, only to return in haste to the safer, wonted seventh. A similar example of uncertain octavation will be described in the following section on the Fate of Quartal and Quintal Patterns."
- "I arranged ‘octavations’ which seemed to me to give the two movements greater elegance and litheness."
- "The method provides a simple control mechanism to provide spectral morphing via the octavation parameter."
- "He also once mentioned a principle of “octavation” (his term), whereby, coming to a difficult point in the evolution of a contrapuntal texture, the composer could, as it were, escape to fresh territory by the straightforward strategy of jumping a part up or down by an octave."
- "It may be said that the sex question is both brain stem and pelvic stem in its fourfold octavation with its stabilizing governor, the pituitary body. These consist in coördination and correlation, the sex relation of octavation of voice and pitch."