(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.
Quintet
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Quintette
Example Sentences:
(1) This magnificent quintet of gems was, alas, the sum total of the factual and subjective spoils of which the committee was able to relieve him over two-and-a-half long hours.
(2) In the English-speaking cinema, Gassman was at his best working with Robert Altman in films (not, it is true, among the director's finest) like A Wedding (1978) and Quintet (1979).
(3) The senior quintet would be reduced to, at best, squad roles.
(4) The quintet have given Hunt until Monday to respond.
(5) Nowhere, alas: instead the august broadsheet rock critic was confronted by a “parade of misfits”, horrified by the sound of experimental jazz quintet Polar Bear “tootling” on something he referred to as “a coronet”.
(6) Who couldn't be stirred by the gleeful noir of the opening theme , nor by the Boccherini Minuet that the film makes famous again (their cover story is they're an amateur string quintet)?
(7) Currently the focus of all the fuss is Room on Fire, the second album by New York quintet the Strokes.
(8) In Mackendrick's film, Guinness heads a gang disguised as a string quintet planning a heist from the home of an innocent old lady.
(9) The variation in longevity among quintets was large and the expression of genetic longevity interacted with the treatments.
(10) The only reason for Peter’s investment in Salford City is aligned with his personal philanthropic interest in youth development,” the spokesperson said, “and of course his support for the members of the class of 92.” The former United quintet said when announcing the deal they had known Lim for 10 years – initially this was through his ownership of United’s Red Cafe Asian franchise.
(11) Lawyers for the medical quintet challenging him in the high court claim that the provisions of the Health and Social Care Act 2012, in which the then health secretary Andrew Lansley set out to limit the health secretary’s power over the NHS, mean that Hunt was exceeding his powers by deciding on 11 February to impose the contract after two months of talks with the British Medical Association failed.
(12) The quintet of leg pain, weakness, edema, rectal mass, and hydronephrosis suggests plexopathy due to cancer.
(13) (Tata is shortly to retire but says at 75 his life's work won't be done, a sentiment of which the Britannia Unchained quintet would doubtless approve.)
(14) The low frequency shift of the quartet (0.31 ppm) and the quintet (0.62 ppm) from the triplet correlated with an increase in the number of 19F-ions in each complex.
(15) Alongside Corbyn and Watson’s own election, the quintet now at the top of the party is entirely male.
(16) I think all of our strikers need to be challenged,” said Hodgson, whose decision to bring a quintet of forwards to the finals already appears justified.
(17) After one show in their local neighbourhood, Este and Danielle were invited to be a part of a pop quintet called the Valli Girls .
(18) All have negative quadrupole interaction, and both this and the magnetic anisotropy imply that the orbital of the odd electron is prolate in the ground quintet, with little unquenched orbital angular momentum.
(19) It's even better when his friends arrive to rehearse for their amateur string quintet.
(20) This mixed bill features two new creations: a trio by rising talent Alexander Whitley set to Adès’s Piano Quintet, and an epically scaled response to his Polaris by the magnificent Crystal Pite.