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octavated

octavated adjective: altered to sound a pitch one octave lower than its usual range.

Adjective

octavated (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Altered to sound a pitch one octave lower than its usual range.
    • Ob 2 = violin 2 (octavated, except bar 4, which is from basset-horn 2)1987, Bastiaan Blomhert, The Harmoniemusik of Die Entführung aus dem Serail by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, page 60

Origin of octavated

From octavate + -ed.

Questions about octavated

What does octavated mean?
Octavated means altered to sound a pitch one octave lower than its usual range.
What part of speech is octavated?
Octavated is an adjective.

Words near octavated in the dictionary

  1. octaval
  2. octavalence
  3. octavalency
  4. octavalent
  5. octavate
  6. octavated
  7. octavates
  8. octavating
  9. octavation
  10. octavations
  11. octave

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