Octave (disambiguation)

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An octave, in music, is the interval between one musical pitch and another with half or double its frequency.

Octave may also refer to:

Computing[]

• GNU Octave, a program for performing numerical analysis, mostly compatible with MATLAB
• OCTAVE, an information security assessment approach developed by Carnegie Mellon University used in IT risk management

Music[]

• Octave (album), by The Moody Blues
• Diapason (magazine), a French monthly music magazine

Literature[]

• Octave (poetry), the first eight lines of a sonnet
• Sicilian octave, a distinct poetic form
• Ottava rima, an Italian verse form

Science[]

• Octave (electronics), a doubling or halving of frequency, in physics and engineering
• Octave band, a frequency band that spans one octave
• Law of Octaves, a concept from the history of the development of the periodic table of chemical elements
• An early term for octonion in algebra

Other uses[]

• Octave, Arizona, an unincorporated community, United States
• Octave celebration, a major religious celebration in Luxembourg
• Octave (horse), a champion graded stakes race thoroughbred racehorse
• Octave (liturgy), an eight-day feast in the liturgical sense, especially in the Roman Catholic tradition
• Octave (unit), a United Kingdom unit for whiskey
• Octave, a fictional character in the movie Interstella 5555
• Hurricane Octave, several tropical storms

People with the name[]

• Octave (musician) (born 1963), Romanian rock musician
• Dieuson Octave (born 1997), American rapper known professionally as Kodak Black
• Octave Boudouard (1872–1923), French chemist
• Octave Chanute (1832–1910), French-born American railway engineer and aviation pioneer
• Octave Crouzon (1874–1938), French neurologist
• Octave Dayen (1906–1987), French cyclist
• Octave Dua (1882–1952), Belgian operatic tenor
• Octave Duboscq (1868–1943), French zoologist, mycologist and parasitologist
• Octave Féré (1815–1875), French writer
• Octave Fortin (1842–1927), Canadian clergyman
• Octave Garnier (1889–1912), French anarchist and founding member of the infamous Bonnot Gang
• Octave Gengou (1875–1957), Belgian bacteriologist
• Octave Gréard (1828–1904), French educator
• Octave Lapize (1887–1917), French cyclist
• Octave Lebesgue (1857–1933), French journalist and writer
• Octave Levenspiel (1926–2017), American professor of chemical engineering
• Octave Lignier (1855–1916), French botanist
• Octave Mannoni (1899–1989), French psychoanalyst and author
• Octave Maus (1856–1919), Belgian art critic, writer, and lawyer
• Octave Merlier (1897–1996), French linguist of Greek
• Octave Mirbeau (1848–1917), French journalist
• Octave Penguilly L'Haridon (1811–1872), French painter
• Octave Pirmez (1832–1883), Belgian author born in Châtelineau
• Octave Pradels (1842–1930), French poet, novelist, vaudevilliste and lyricist
• Octave Tassaert (1800–1874), French painter
• Octave Terrillon (1844–1895), French physician and surgeon
• Octave Uzanne (1851–1931), French bibliophile, writer, publisher, and journalist

See also[]

• All pages with titles beginning with Octave

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