Usually means: Interval of eight pitch steps.
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  1. octave: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. octave: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. octave: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  6. Octave, octave: Wordnik
  7. octave: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. octave: Wiktionary
  9. octave: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. octave: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. octave: Infoplease Dictionary
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  14. octave: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Octave (album), Octave (disambiguation), Octave (electronics), Octave (horse), Octave (liturgical), Octave (liturgy), Octave (musician), Octave (poetry), Octave (programming language), Octave (unit), Octave: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Octave: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. octave: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  19. Octave: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. octave: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Octave: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
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  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Octave: Encyclopedia of Organ Stops
  4. Octave: Lexicon of Linguistics
  5. OCTAVE: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Octave: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. octave: Encyclopedia

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  2. OCTAVE: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. OCTAVE: Acronym Finder

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Octave: Catholic Encyclopedia

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Octave: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Octave: Extragalactic Astronomy
  3. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

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  1. octave: The Folk File
  2. Octave: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Octave: Sports Definitions

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. octave: Electronics
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  4. OCTAVE: NOISE CONTROL TERMS
  5. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
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Definitions from Wiktionary (octave)

noun:  (music) An interval of twelve semitones spanning eight degrees of the diatonic scale, representing a doubling or halving in pitch frequency.
noun:  (music) The pitch an octave higher than a given pitch.
noun:  (music) A coupler on an organ which allows the organist to sound the note an octave above the note of the key pressed (cf sub-octave)
noun:  (poetry) A poetic stanza consisting of eight lines; usually used as one part of a sonnet.
noun:  (fencing) The eighth defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword out straight at knee level.
noun:  (Christianity) The day that is one week after a feast day in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church.
noun:  (Christianity) An eight-day period beginning on a feast day in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church.
noun:  A small cask of wine, one eighth of a pipe.
noun:  (mathematics, obsolete) An octonion.
noun:  (signal processing) Any of a number of coherent-noise functions of differing frequency that are added together to form Perlin noise.
noun:  (astrology) The subjective vibration of a planet.
adjective:  (obsolete) Consisting of eight; eight in number.
verb:  Alternative form of octavate [(music) To sound one octave higher or lower.]

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