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Word: octave
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Noun:
- Christianity An eight day period beginning on a feast day in the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church.
- Christianity The day that is one week after a feast day in the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church.
- fencing The eighth defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword out straight at knee level.
- music An interval of twelve semitones spanning eight degrees of the diatonic scale, representing a doubling or halving in pitch.
- music The pitch an octave higher than a given pitch.
- poetry A poetic stanza consisting of eight lines; usually used as one part of a sonnet.
Source: Wiktionary
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