(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.
Septet
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Septette
Example Sentences:
(1) Molecular orbital calculations (Hartree-Fock) incorrectly lead to septet ground state (S = 3) for the MbO2 model.
(2) The harmonious counterpoint of this septet of currents explains most of the electrical excitability properties of these cells.
(3) The success of the split single prompted guitarist Neol Davis toswiftly recruit musicians from Coventry's tiny reggae scene, including singer Pauline Black, to make the Selecter the second 2 Tone septet.