Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An eighth part.
- noun In music, the octave below a given tone.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Containing one part of eight; having the ratio of one to eight.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun music The
octave below another.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
sub- + octave
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Examples
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Grand Choeur; the Grand Orgne and the Grand Choeur to the Pedals; and each manual has a suboctave coupler on itself.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments George Laing Miller
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