Meaning

4 senses

  1. To sound one octave higher or lower.

    (intransitive)To resonate or sound one octave higher or lower.

  2. (intransitive)To span (at least) one octave in playing a musical instrument.

    2007, Michael Gallant, “OCTAVATE!: Spread your hands to create powerful sounds.” in Keyboard XXXIII–XXXIV, page unknown

  3. (rare, transitive)To double the pitch of (a part of itself).

  4. (rare)To convert (the expression of a number) from denary to octal notation.

Translations

2 languages

Origin

First attested in 1922; formed as octav(e) + -ate (verb-forming suffix), in the musical se

First attested in 1922; formed as octav(e) + -ate (verb-forming suffix), in the musical sense after the French octavier.

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Forms

octavates, octavating, octavated, octavated
Base formoctavate · to octavate
3rd person singularoctavates
Present participleoctavating
Past simpleoctavated
Past participleoctavated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyoctavate
he, she, itoctavates

Past simpleLesson

all personsoctavated

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave octavated
he, she, ithas octavated

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill octavate

Antonyms

1 antonyms
decimate

Word family

3 related words
Relatedoctavation
Derivedoctavatedoctavating

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
ochreoctagonoctaveoctopus
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