octavate English

Meaning octavate meaning

What does octavate mean?

octavate verb

— (music) To sound one octave higher or lower.

— (intransitive, of an instrument) To resonate or sound one octave higher or lower.

— (intransitive, of a person) To span (at least) one octave in playing a musical instrument.

— (transitive, rare, of an instrument, construed with up) To double the pitch of (a part of itself).

— sound one octave higher or lower

octavate noun

— (rare) octave (transfiguratively)