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contraoctave

Meaning of "contraoctave" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF CONTRAOCTAVE

ˌkɒntrəʳˈɒktɪv


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CONTRAOCTAVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Contraoctave is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CONTRAOCTAVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of contraoctave in the English dictionary

The definition of contraoctave in the dictionary is the octave that begins on the third C below middle C and ends on the second C below middle C.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CONTRAOCTAVE

active · attractive · collective · concoctive · decoctive · detective · distinctive · effective · interactive · objective · octave · perspective · productive · prospective · protective · respective · selective · subcontraoctave · suboctave · superoctave

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CONTRAOCTAVE

contrail · contraindicant · contraindicate · contraindicated · contraindication · contrair · contralateral · contralti · contralto · contranatant · contraplex · contraposition · contrapositive · contrapposto · contraprop · contrapropeller · contraption · contrapuntal · contrapuntalist · contrapuntally

WORDS THAT END LIKE CONTRAOCTAVE

ave · brave · cave · clave · fave · gave · grave · have · leave · microwave · must-have · nave · palstave · save · slave · stave · suave · Tamatave · the New Wave · wave

Synonyms and antonyms of contraoctave in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «contraoctave» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CONTRAOCTAVE

Find out the translation of contraoctave to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of contraoctave from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «contraoctave» in English.
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Translator English - Chinese

contraoctave
1,325 millions of speakers
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contraoctave
570 millions of speakers
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contraoctave
510 millions of speakers
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contraoctave
380 millions of speakers
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contraoctave
280 millions of speakers
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contraoctave
278 millions of speakers
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contraoctave
270 millions of speakers
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contraoctave
260 millions of speakers
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contraoctave
220 millions of speakers
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Contraoctave
190 millions of speakers
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contraoctave
180 millions of speakers
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contraoctave
130 millions of speakers
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contraoctave
85 millions of speakers
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Contraoctave
85 millions of speakers
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contraoctave
80 millions of speakers
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contraoctave
75 millions of speakers
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Contraoctave
75 millions of speakers
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contraoctave
70 millions of speakers
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contraoctave
65 millions of speakers
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contraoctave
50 millions of speakers
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contraoctave
40 millions of speakers
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contraoctave
30 millions of speakers
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contraoctave
15 millions of speakers
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contraoctave
14 millions of speakers
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contraoctave
10 millions of speakers
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contraoctave
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of contraoctave

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CONTRAOCTAVE»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about contraoctave

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONTRAOCTAVE»

Discover the use of contraoctave in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to contraoctave and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Critical Survey of Short Fiction: Bharati Mukherjee - Mona ...
From his literary debut in 1913 to 1914 with "The Story of a Contraoctave" and a collection of lyrics, "A Twin in the Clouds," Pasternak devoted the whole of his creative life to literature. Most of his short fiction and both long epic poetry and ...
Charles Edward May, Frank Northen Magill, 2001
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WORD JUDGE USA
... CONTRALATERAL CONTRALTI CONTRALTO CONTRALTOS CONTRAOCTAVE CONTRAOCTAVES CONTRAPOSITION CONTRAPOSITIONS CONTRAPOSITIVE CONTRAPOSITIVES CONTRAPTION CONTRAPTIONS CONTRAPUNTAL ...
Maliha Mendoza Mahmood, 2013
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Jews in Russian Literature After the October Revolution: ...
... 'August'163; Doctor tyivago 141, 143, 145, 150, 151-69, 169, 171, 183; 'Liuvers' Childhood' 150, 151; 'Marburg' 147; 'Second Birth' 140; 'Story of a Contraoctave' 15o, 152 ; "The Black Goblet' 141 Pasternak, Evgeniia: see Lourie Pasternak, ...
Efraim Sicher, 1995
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Geschichte Einer Ära: Eine Interpretation Zweiter Werke Für ...
The bass still offers some resistance, through inertia, but after emitting one last weary growl in the contraoctave it, too, makes its peace (Kx. 40): Der BaB leistet noch passiven Widerstand, doch nach einem letzten mtiden Brummen in der ...
Michael Kugel, Christine Groessing, 2002
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Schirmer Pronouncing Pocket Manual of Musical Terms
The double CONTRAOCTAVE . Subordinatechords. CHORDS not FUNDAMENTAL or PRINCIPAL; the TRIADS builton the second, third, sixth, and seventh SCALE DEGREES , and all seventh chords but the DOMINANT SEVENTH .
Theodore Baker
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Word Master Vocabulary: Seeing and Using Words
... or defending against <an£taircraft> <antimis- sile> contra- prefix [ME, fr. L, fr. contra against, opposite - more at COUNTER] 1 : against : contrary : contrasting < con£radiction> <con£radistinction> 2 : pitched below normal bass <contraoctave > ...
David L. Bacon, EDCON Publishing Group, 2007
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Merriam-Webster's Rhyming Dictionary
... enclave, engrave, enslave, exclave, forgave, Great Slave, margrave, octave, outbrave, p-wave, palsgrave, shortwave, spokeshave after-shave, architrave, biconcave, microwave contraoctave, photoengrave ave3 \av\ see alve3 ave4 \äv\ see ...
‎2002
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Russian Literature Triquarterly
The unpublished tale "The History of a Contraoctave" was written in the summer of 1913, three years after Pasternak's return from its setting, one of those small German towns which Pasternak knew well from his experience of a summer ...
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Dictionary of Terms in Music / Wörterbuch Musik: English - ...
Kontra-Oktave f contraoctave. Kontrapunkt1 m counterpoint; blühender - florid counterpoint; doppelter - double/invertible counterpoint; dreifacher - triple counterpoint; einfacher - simple counterpoint; gelehrter — learned counterpoint; gemeiner ...
Horst Leuchtmann, 1992
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Time series analysis as a method to characterize musical ...
... 65536 0,673 17 131072 0,336 In order to get also in the area of lower frequencies a sufficient width (so that in the sub contraoctave still is one FFTfrequency amount value for each halftone at disposal), N should be chosen with at least 16.
Kai Bachmann, 2012

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CONTRAOCTAVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term contraoctave is used in the context of the following news items.
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The NSA's org chart
Once validated as a legitimate foreign intelligence target, the selectors live, virtually, in two databases: Octave and Contraoctave. The analyst ... «The Week Magazine, Nov 13»
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Solving the mystery of PRISM
She uses a tool, like PRISM, to analyze information collected and deposited in a database, like CONTRAOCTAVE. Then she uses another tool, ... «The Week Magazine, Jun 13»
REFERENCE
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