What's the difference between octave and third?

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.

Third


Definition:

  • (a.) Next after the second; coming after two others; -- the ordinal of three; as, the third hour in the day.
  • (a.) Constituting or being one of three equal parts into which anything is divided; as, the third part of a day.
  • (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by three; one of three equal parts into which anything is divided.
  • (n.) The sixtieth part of a second of time.
  • (n.) The third tone of the scale; the mediant.
  • (n.) The third part of the estate of a deceased husband, which, by some local laws, the widow is entitled to enjoy during her life.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "This is the third event in the last few days following An-26 and SU-25 planes being brought down.
  • (2) When perfusion of the affected lung was less than one-third of the total the tumour was found to be unresectable.
  • (3) In schizophrenic patients the density of dopamine uptake sites in the basal ganglia was slightly reduced, mainly in the middle third of putamen.
  • (4) Blatter requires a two-thirds majority of the 209 voters to triumph in the opening round, with a simple majority required if it goes to a second round.
  • (5) First, it has diverted grain away from food for fuel, with over a third of US corn now used to produce ethanol and about half of vegetable oils in the EU going towards the production of biodiesel.
  • (6) A third group of healthy children was added for comparison.
  • (7) One rare case of blind-ending branch originating in the upper third of the ureter are described.
  • (8) It is a place that occupies two thirds of our planet but very little is known of vast swaths of it.
  • (9) However, about one-third of the melanomas showed a higher surviving fraction at 2.0 Gy than the highest value measured for the other tumors.
  • (10) The third route was quantitated by its sensitivity to probenecid and its activity was increased in saline buffers and upon addition of glucose and was inhibited by oligomycin.
  • (11) The G+C content of the third base of the codon in the tufB gene was 84.8% and G was especially preferred in this position.
  • (12) In lactate medium the capacity of each AIB carrier is unchanged but its affinity is reduced to one-third.
  • (13) Of the sampled population, 6.3 per cent exhibited some degree of hypodontia (third molar agenesis excluded).
  • (14) We knew it would be a strange match because they had to come out and play to win to finish third,” Benitez said afterwards.
  • (15) Other than failing to get a goal, I couldn’t ask for anything more.” From Lambert’s perspective there was an element of misfortune about the first and third goals, with Willian benefitting from handy ricochets on both occasions.
  • (16) Patients with MID, but not those with DAT, exhibited correlations between enlargement of the third and lateral ventricles and severity of cognitive impairment.
  • (17) Two-thirds of the specimens tested gave positive results.
  • (18) NE differentially affected responses to stimulus movement in the preferred and non-preferred direction in one-third of these neurons, such that directional selectivity was increased.
  • (19) Finally, before the advent of the third-party payment, operations were avoided because of the financial burden.
  • (20) A third autopsy of Tomlinson, conducted on behalf of the officer, agreed with the findings of the second postmortem.