Octave (disambiguation)
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An octave is the interval between one musical pitch and another with half or double its frequency.
Octave may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
[edit]- Octave (album), by The Moody Blues
- Octave (poetry), a verse form consisting of eight lines of iambic pentameter
- Sicilian octave, a verse form consisting of eight lines of eleven syllables each
- Ottava rima, an Italian verse form
- Octave, a fictional character in the film Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem
Science and technology
[edit]- Octave (electronics), a logarithmic unit for ratios between frequencies
- GNU Octave, a high-level computer programming language
- Octave, an IT risk management method
- Octonion, originally octave, in hypercomplex algebra
People
[edit]- Octave (given name) including a list of people with the name
- Octave (musician) (born 1963), Romanian rock musician
- Dieuson Octave (born 1997), American rapper known as Kodak Black
Other uses
[edit]- Octave, Arizona, a place in the US
- Octave (horse) (foaled 2004), a thoroughbred racehorse
- Octave (liturgy), either the eighth day after a feast, or the whole period of those eight days
- Octave celebration, a religious celebration in Luxembourg
- Octave (unit), a British unit for measuring whisky
- Hurricane Octave, several tropical storms
See also
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- All pages with titles beginning with Octave
- Octave band, a frequency band that spans one octave
- Law of Octaves, a concept from the history of the development of the periodic table of chemical elements