Octavating
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Transposed by an octave. not-comparable
"The idea underlying this section is ‘the exploitation of non-octavating pitch-sieves (scales) and their cyclic transpositions.’"
Example
More examples"The idea underlying this section is ‘the exploitation of non-octavating pitch-sieves (scales) and their cyclic transpositions.’"
Etymology
From octavate + -ing.
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