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octaviate

octaviate verb: to octavate.

Verb

octaviate (third-person singular simple present octaviates, present participle octaviating, simple past and past participle octaviated)

  1. (rare) To octavate.
    • He octaviates some fragments of the tune (including the first note) without even the excuse of avoiding difficult stopping.
      […]
      The transcriber adapts chords to his instrument, sometimes octaviates or simplifies the bass on technical grounds, but a peculiarity of this setting is the inclusion of...1992, Chelys, volumes 21-22, page 33 & 37
    • As the fundamentals of each fof begin to octaviate, they are desynchronized by individual envelopes, […]2000, Richard Charles Boulanger, editor, the csound book, page 317

Forms of octaviate

third-person singular presentoctaviates
present participleoctaviating
past participleoctaviated
pastoctaviated

Origin of octaviate

Modelled on French octavier; see octavate for more.

Questions about octaviate

What does octaviate mean?
Octaviate means to octavate.
What part of speech is octaviate?
Octaviate is a verb.
What is the past tense of octaviate?
The past tense of octaviate is octaviated.

Words near octaviate in the dictionary

  1. octaved
  2. octaves
  3. Octaves of Easter
  4. Octavia
  5. Octavian
  6. octaviate
  7. octaviation
  8. octaviations
  9. octavic
  10. octavin
  11. octavina

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