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   octave

   /ˈɒktɪv/

   noun

   • 1. a series of eight notes occupying the interval between (and including) two notes, one having twice or half the frequency of vibration of the other.
   • ▪ the interval between the two notes at the extremes of an octave.
   • ▪ each of the two notes at the extremes of an octave.
   • ▪ the two notes at the extremes of an octave sounding together.
   • 2. a group or stanza of eight lines; an octet.
   • 3. the seventh day after a Church festival.
   • ▪ a period of eight days beginning with the day of a Church festival.
   • 4. the last of eight parrying positions.
   • 5. a wine cask holding an eighth of a pipe. British

   Word Origin Middle English (in octave (sense 3)): via Old French from Latin octava dies ‘eighth day’.

   Scrabble Points: 11

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