What's the difference between octave and twelfth?

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.

Twelfth


Definition:

  • (a.) Next in order after the eleventh; coming after eleven others; -- the ordinal of twelve.
  • (a.) Consisting, or being one of, twelve equal parts into which anything is divided.
  • (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by twelve; one of twelve equal parts of one whole.
  • (n.) The next in order after the eleventh.
  • (n.) An interval comprising an octave and a fifth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Subtle cognitive deficits in Inferential Reading Comprehension were detected when Reading Vocabulary was at or better than a twelfth grade level.
  • (2) The phospholipid which accumulated between the sixth and twelfth culture days was composed of 21--27% disaturated phosphatidylcholines.
  • (3) Serum PRL was relatively unchanged in the control animals from the fourth through the twelfth weeks of the study.
  • (4) Eleven involved the left hemidiaphragm, and the twelfth the right.
  • (5) Administration of dihydrotestosterone led to inhibition of xenograft growth at the ninth passage compared with untreated controls (P less than 0.05), but had no effect on xenograft growth at the tenth and twelfth passages when androgen receptors were absent.
  • (6) Otocysts of twelfth and thirteenth gestation day mouse embryos were grown in organ culture for 9 and 8 days respectively.
  • (7) The preparation of convenience soups takes only between one fifth and one eighth of the necessary time for the preparation of conventionally, of sauces only between one sixth and one twelfth of the required time.
  • (8) When the target mRNA encodes the activated c-Ha-ras differing by a single nucleotide at the twelfth amino acid codon from normal c-Ha-ras, the magnitude of the inhibitory effect of Ras I increased significantly because Ras I is now perfectly complementary to its target mRNA.
  • (9) The ninth and twelfth grade records reveal that those who had previously been identified as showing behavior related to attention deficit disorder later performed significantly more poorly in school and had poorer social adjustment.
  • (10) Neoplastic foci of mixed hepatocytes and cholangiocytes increased in livers of exposed guppies from the second month, developing into hepatoblastomas, which occurred in almost 100% of exposed guppies by the twelfth month.
  • (11) Three-year panel data collected from seventh- to twelfth-grade adolescents were analyzed using differences in means tests and discriminant analysis.
  • (12) One million came by sea last year, a twelfth of those displaced after 1945.
  • (13) The clinical course from this exposure included papilledema from the third to the sixth month and depressed visual evoked response accompanied by delta activity in the electroencephalogram from the sixth to the twelfth month.
  • (14) Despite normal peripheral nerve conduction along the tibial nerve, the mean latency of the spinal cord potential of the twelfth thoracic vertebra was increased compared with normal, possibly indicating an incipient conduction defect at or near the spinal root ganglion or lumbar spinal cord.
  • (15) Only a few solitary neurinomas of the twelfth cranial nerve have been reported.
  • (16) A patient with endocarditis produced by Listeria monocytogenes is presented, the twelfth such case reported.
  • (17) The animals were slaughtered between the seventh and twelfth days after Sui, and the following ovulation percentages were established: 100 per cent in the first group, 83.3 per cent in the second, 55.6 per cent in the third, and 72.2 per cent in the fourth.
  • (18) Nonspecific airway responsiveness to eucapneic hyperventilation with subfreezing air was measured on at least two occasions between the sixth and twelfth annual surveys.
  • (19) Twelfth months later the control-angiocardiography showed the total obliteration of the ductal aneurysm.
  • (20) The veteran journalist, currently the executive editor of PBS Newshour, may have been hosting his twelfth such debate but he faced a blistering level of criticism for his performance.