- Music.
- a tone on the eighth degree from a given tone.
- the interval encompassed by such tones.
- the harmonic combination of such tones.
- a series of tones, or of keys of an instrument, extending through this interval.
- a pipe-organ stop whose pipes give tones an octave above the normal pitch of the keys used.
- a series or group of eight.
- Also called octet. Prosody.
- a group of eight lines of verse, especially the first eight lines of a sonnet in the Italian form.
- a stanza of eight lines.
- the eighth of a series.
- Ecclesiastical.
- the eighth day from a feast day, counting the feast day as the first.
- the period of eight days beginning with a feast day.
- one eighth of a pipe of wine.
- the eighth of eight defensive positions.
- pitched an octave higher.
- the interval between two musical notes one of which has twice the pitch of the other and lies eight notes away from it counting inclusively along the diatonic scale
- one of these two notes, esp the one of higher pitch
- (as modifier)
- a rhythmic group of eight lines of verse
- (ˈɒkteɪv)
- a feast day and the seven days following
- the final day of this period
- the eighth of eight basic positions in fencing
- any set or series of eight
- consisting of eight parts
