What's the difference between octave and sixth?

Octave


Definition:

  • (n.) The eighth day after a church festival, the festival day being included; also, the week following a church festival.
  • (n.) The eighth tone in the scale; the interval between one and eight of the scale, or any interval of equal length; an interval of five tones and two semitones.
  • (n.) The whole diatonic scale itself.
  • (n.) The first two stanzas of a sonnet, consisting of four verses each; a stanza of eight lines.
  • (n.) A small cask of wine, the eighth part of a pipe.
  • (a.) Consisting of eight; eight.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the postsynaptic layers, frequencies up to three octaves from the neurons' best frequency induced two-tone suppression that was sensitive to BIC.
  • (2) In V1, 68% of the neurones exhibited low-pass temporal tuning characteristics and 32% were very broadly tuned, with a mean temporal frequency full band width of 2.9 octaves.
  • (3) The torus also received bilateral input from the nucleus ventromedialis thalami, nucleus of lemniscus lateralis, nucleus medialis, anterior octaval nucleus, descending octaval nucleus, and the reticular formation.
  • (4) She grew up in St Louis, Missouri, more impressed as a young girl by Mariah Carey's multi-octaves and Lauryn Hill.
  • (5) Two component tones of each stimulus were approximately an octave apart.
  • (6) Average half-width (at half-height) of the spatial-frequency tuning curves constructed from the data was 1.4 octaves, and was not dependent upon the level of adaptation or the spatial frequency of the test grating.
  • (7) The limited data from diplacusis measurements and octave adjustments suggest that the exaggerated negative pitch shifts are the consequence of a large increase in pitch at low stimulus levels which "recruits" at higher levels.
  • (8) When comparing conventional octave audiometry and Békésy threshold tracing, the latter method is found to be more subtle in finding carriers of genes for recessive deafness.
  • (9) 4) There is a disproportionately large cortical surface representation of the highest-frequency octaves (basal cochlea) within AI.
  • (10) Bursts of one-third octave noise with center frequencies of 500, 1000, 2000, and 4000 Hz and durations of 15, 20, 50, 100, 200, and 300 msec were used as stimuli.
  • (11) The pars lateralis and rostral anterior octaval nucleus may be additional afferent sources.
  • (12) In Experiment 2, 2-point threshold-duration functions were compared for 4-kHz tones and octave-band noise bursts presented in backgrounds of quiet and continuous noise.
  • (13) Optimum filter bandwidth was found to be about 1.1 octaves.
  • (14) It was found that the neurons could respond well to single octaves of the spatial frequencies normally present in faces, that the most effective bands were 4-8, 8-16 and 16-32 cycles per face (cpf), and that the bands 2-4 and 32-64 cpf were partly effective.
  • (15) In the two experiments reported here, subjects performed repeated octave adjustments for pairs of simultaneous and successive tone bursts.
  • (16) One-third octave band frequency analysis of the weighted signals indicated that the dominant frequencies were usually 1.6 to 3.15 Hz, except when the vehicles were idling and higher frequencies predominated.
  • (17) Results varied by no more than one octave in 79 per cent of the cases.
  • (18) Speech and noise are both spectrally shaped according to the bisector line of the listener's dynamic-range of hearing, but with the noise in a single octave band (0.25-0.5 or 0.5-1 kHz) increased by 20 dB relative to this line.
  • (19) It is shown that phase-locking begins to decline at about 600 Hz and is no longer detectable above 3.5 kHz which is about 1 octave lower than in the cat, squirrel monkey and some birds.
  • (20) Chinchillas were exposed to an 86 dB SPL octave band of noise centered at 4.0 kHz for 3.5--5 days.

Sixth


Definition:

  • (a.) First after the fifth; next in order after the fifth.
  • (a.) Constituting or being one of six equal parts into which anything is divided.
  • (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by six; one of six equal parts which form a whole.
  • (n.) The next in order after the fifth.
  • (n.) The interval embracing six diatonic degrees of the scale.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The final number of fibers--140,000-165,000--is reached by the sixth week after birth.
  • (2) Ventilation-perfusion lung scans and contrast ascending venography were performed on the sixth to eighth postoperative days.
  • (3) In the sixth frame of the evening he sunk a magnificent long red and careered on his way to a 131 clearance to extend his lead in the match to 9-5.
  • (4) The highest frequency occurred in the sixth decade.
  • (5) With Everton heading for a sixth-placed finish in the Premier League, the additional television revenue and prospect of further funds from Fellaini, the club are confident of appointing an "equally significant" successor to Moyes, according to the chairman, Bill Kenwright.
  • (6) That's the sixth hit allowed tonight dor Wainwright.
  • (7) A sixth of the world's oil exports passes through it every day.
  • (8) School sixth-form funding Will be cut to bring it in line with that in colleges by 2015.
  • (9) Phil Barlow Nottingham • Reading about the problems caused by a lack of toilets reminded me of the harvest camps my father’s Birmingham school organised in the Vale of Evesham during the war, where the sixth-formers spent weeks picking fruit and vegetables on farms.
  • (10) In addition to generating a chemotactic factor, plasmin destroys the complement-associated chemotactic factor that is a trimolecular complex consisting of the fifth (C'5), sixth (C'6), and seventh (C'7) components of complement.
  • (11) The authors discuss the appropriateness of teaching clinical pharmacology (CP) to fourth-year students, lectures in CP to fourth-, fifth- and sixth-year students in accordance with the study of the main clinical specialties (therapy, surgery, pediatrics, etc.
  • (12) The phospholipid which accumulated between the sixth and twelfth culture days was composed of 21--27% disaturated phosphatidylcholines.
  • (13) The inhibitory effect of SMS on endogenous cholecystokinin release was fully operative on the sixth day of injection treatment, whereas the inhibitory effect on exogenous cholecystokinin injection significantly decreased after SMS administration for seven days, indicating desensitization of the end organ by somatostatin.
  • (14) )-sensitive mutants and have identified a sixth complementation group, line UV61.
  • (15) Residual bowel measuring 10 cm required prolonged TPN in the sixth infant and was not compatible with survival.
  • (16) He was appointed head coach of the Ligue 2 club Metz in June 2015 but left in December with them in sixth place.
  • (17) The marquee event on Thursday, considering recent off the court events, was the sixth game between the Los Angeles Clippers.
  • (18) Participants were 206 healthy, volunteer low-to-middle-income Mexican-American and non-Hispanic white (Anglo-American) families (623 individuals), each with a fifth or a sixth-grade child.
  • (19) A bout a year ago, a few months before she left sixth-form college, my youngest daughter asked cheerily: "What will you feel when you have no one left to wave goodbye to in the morning?"
  • (20) The action of the venom of the wasp Campsomeris sexmaculata on the insect CNS has been studied using the cercal nerve-giant interneuron preparation of the sixth abdominal ganglion of the cockroach.