Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A musical instrument having eight strings.
- noun A diatonic series of eight tones. Compare tetrachord, hexachord, etc.
- noun Also octochord, octogenary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mus.) An instrument of eight strings; a system of eight tones.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
musical instrument with eightstrings . - noun A musical system of eight
tones .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Running longitudinally, there are four channels in it if it is a tetrachord; six, if it is a hexachord; eight, if it is an octachord.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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He touches the octachord of nature with fingers of fire and hands of power, and at once the thrilling God vibrates the threads, and every part and ramified relation of the universal spheres He fills with His tremendous presence, commands the molecular entities, and the listening sisters and kindred sires to stop to hear and fly at his behests.
Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D., 1898
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Indeed, his name is the sympathetic chord in the octachord of the ages and nations.
Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D., 1898
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His name fills all the sympathetic chords in the octaves of his soul and in the octachord of the nations and ages.
Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D., 1898
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