Octavating

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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

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"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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