(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.
Unison
Definition:
(n.) Harmony; agreement; concord; union.
(n.) Identity in pitch; coincidence of sounds proceeding from an equality in the number of vibrations made in a given time by two or more sonorous bodies. Parts played or sung in octaves are also said to be in unison, or in octaves.
(n.) A single, unvaried.
(n.) Sounding alone.
(n.) Sounded alike in pitch; unisonant; unisonous; as, unison passages, in which two or more parts unite in coincident sound.
Example Sentences:
(1) "We have hard clinical evidence that if NHS staff feel valued that results in a positive outcome for patients," says Christina McAnea, head of health at Unison.
(2) Dave Prentis, Unison's general secretary Fighting talk at long last.
(3) Due to this aspect the ability of this activity to work in unison with DNA polymerase molecules in the process of DNA repair synthesis was investigated.
(4) Wearing royal blue cloaks with pointed hoods, the boys line up beside the road in a small village just outside the city of Ségou, chanting in unison.
(5) The YouGov poll, commissioned by the health union Unison, follows reports that three cabinet ministers supported an editorial on the influential Conservative Home website last week describing the NHS bill as "potentially fatal to the Conservative party's electoral prospects".
(6) But by Dave Prentis, the general secretary of Unison.
(7) January 6, 2014 Updated at 10.30am GMT 10.13am GMT The public services union Unison, which represents thousands of Environment Agency workers, has accused the government of putting public safety at risk by cutting the organisation's budget.
(8) But it's also arrogance, the idea that the world could heal itself by thinking, in unison, like Brand.
(9) There is the Usdaw reception in the Hilton on Sunday, the Communication Workers Union drinks on Monday and a Unison bash on Tuesday.
(10) "Millions of public sector workers will be left out in the cold," said Dave Prentis, leader of Unison.
(11) Mike Jeram, national officer at the Unison union, which represents workers at E.ON, said: "This is a devastating blow.
(12) Becca Kirkpatrick is a community organiser and chairs Unison’s West Midlands community branch.
(13) More than 1.1 million Unison workers, from healthcare assistants to paramedics and dinner ladies, could join walkouts on 30 November in a dispute over reforms to public sector pensions for health, education, local government and civil service employees.
(14) "Private health already has a small role in the NHS [providing 4% of services], but we don't want it to grow," said Karen Jennings a spokeswoman for Unison, the public services union.
(15) Around 43,000 Unison members – 28,000 as Labour party members in their own right and a further 15,000 who have signed up as registered supporters – can vote in the contest.
(16) Jessica Khoshooee (Unison) Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan • To complement the government’s proposed reforms, would it not be only fair for them to extend the legislation to shareholders in public companies?
(17) The clinical results indicated that Dispersalloy, Indiloy, a high-copper blend by Syntex, Cluster, and Unison had the least marginal failure.
(18) He wrote: "It is time for British politicians to say it loud and clear and in unison: we need bankers my friends.
(19) The only party that can win for working people is a strong and united Labour party.” The signatories to the statement included the general secretaries of Unite, Unison, the GMB and Ucatt.
(20) A memorandum of understanding between the college and Unison, made public at the insistence of the education committee, states that the £270 fee would be split 50-50 between the college and Unison.