octavate

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/ˈɒktəveɪt/

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(intransitive, of an instrument) To resonate or sound one octave higher or lower. / (intransitive, of a person) To span (at least) one octave in playing a musical instrument.

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When the solo violin held its final note, the piccolo began to octavate, piercing through the texture with a bright, elevated tone.

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意味（1）

(intransitive, of an instrument) To resonate or sound one octave higher or lower.

The string, originally divided, will continue for some time to “octavate”.

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意味（2）

(intransitive, of a person) To span (at least) one octave in playing a musical instrument.

Ability to ornament, octavate, play chords and do some improvising.

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意味（3）

(transitive, rare, of an instrument, construed with up) To double the pitch of (a part of itself).

A 12-string doubles the octaves of only the lower four strings…. A doubled, capoed guitar “octavates up” the top two strings.

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(mathematics, rare) To convert (the expression of a number) from denary to octal notation.

To octavate the number one hundred the reasoning is as follows. The square of eight goes into one hundred once with remainder thirty-six. This remainder contains eight to the first power four times with remainder four. Hence to express one hundred to the base 8 we write the digits 144 which in somewhat longer form may be put as 100 = 1×8² + 4×8 + 4.

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octavates （ present singular third-person ）

octavating （ participle present ）

octavated （ participle past ）

octavated （ past ）