octavation

发音

/ˈɒktəveɪʃən/
/ˈɒkteɪveɪʃən/

词形变化

octavations 复数 octavations

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Transposition by an octave.

    音乐

    I arranged ‘octavations’ which seemed to me to give the two movements greater elegance and litheness.

    The method provides a simple control mechanism to provide spectral morphing via the octavation parameter.

  2. 2.

    Normalization of a numerical ratio by repeated multiplication or division by 2.

    罕用

    It may be said that the sex question is both brain stem and pelvic stem in its fourfold octavation with its stabilizing governor, the pituitary body. These consist in coördination and correlation, the sex relation of octavation of voice and pitch.

  3. 3.

    The relationship between two planets that are distant from each other by one eighth of a great circle (45.625 degrees)

    罕用 宗教 哲学

    This octavation will be qualified (and perhaps rendered nil) if on a day when Uranus is well aspected its octave Mercury should be adversely aspected, or vice versa.

  4. 4.

    Conversion (of the expression of a number) from denary to octal notation.

    数学

    The 18th century American mathematician Hugh Jones used the words “octavation” and “decimation” to describe octal/decimal conversions.

词源

First attested in 1922; probably formed as octav(e) + -ation, but compare octavate.

来源：wiktionary