Octave (disambiguation)
Look up octave in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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
[edit]
- 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
This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Octave.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.