What's the difference between octet and ogdoad?

Octet


Definition:

  • (n.) A composition for eight parts, usually for eight solo instruments or voices.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But the piece I'd nominate is the first movement of Mendelssohn's Octet.
  • (2) The string octet that accompanied him then had provided a safety net of sorts.
  • (3) The genetic code doublets can be divided into two octets of completely degenerate and ambiguous coding dinucleotides.
  • (4) With these coordinates a successful topological classification of the crystal structures of octet and suboctet binary compounds is obtained, and a clear delineation of the structural classes portraying chemical periodicity is found.
  • (5) An EPR spectrum of the enzyme as isolated reveals a signal corresponding to high spin Co(II) at temperatures below 20 K. The signal appears as a partially resolved 59Co octet centered at an apparent g value of 7.
  • (6) Rosie Swash Mendelssohn's Octet I cry all the time at music.
  • (7) This program is compatible with any IBM PC microcomputer and includes a hard disk of 10 or 20 mega-octets.
  • (8) The conventionally stained somatic chromosomes of O. americanus can be arranged into sets of four similar chromosomes (quartets); those of C. ornata, into sets of eight similar chromosomes (octets).
  • (9) These two octets have the algebraic property of lying on continuously connected planes on the group graph (a tesseract) of the Cartesian product of two Klein 4-groups of nucleotide exchange operators.
  • (10) These structural heterogeneities within the quartets and octets are interpreted as a "diploidization" of the polyploid karyotypes.
  • (11) The ability of the mutated HlyA molecules to initiate membrane translocation and be secreted required the presence of the C terminus and, to a degree, the repeated amino acid octets.
  • (12) A string octet was duly summoned to the studio, in the process astrally chauffeuring Kirby 36 years back to Cambridge, where these arrangements were last performed: 'You know sometimes, when you catch a smell from long ago, and it knocks you for six?
  • (13) In analogy, some octets of C. ornata can be subdivided into two quartets of chromosomes with homologous bands.
  • (14) In this adduct, the greater than N:B bond is coordinate, involving the free electron pair of nitrogen, thereby satisfying the octet rule for the second electron shell of boron (Group IIIA).
  • (15) The two octets of coding doublets have the further algebraic property that the product of their internal exchange operators naturally divide into two exactly equivalent sets.

Ogdoad


Definition:

  • (n.) A thing made up of eight parts.

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