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Meaning of 'octave' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Octave [ a.]
- Consisting of eight; eight.
2 . Octave [ n.]
- The eighth day after a church festival, the festival day being included; also, the week following a church festival.
- The eighth tone in the scale; the interval between one and eight of the scale, or any interval of equal length; an interval of five tones and two semitones.
- The whole diatonic scale itself.
- The first two stanzas of a sonnet, consisting of four verses each; a stanza of eight lines.
- A small cask of wine, the eighth part of a pipe.

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