Octave (disambiguation)

An octave, in music, is the interval between one musical pitch and another with half or double its frequency.

'Octave' may also refer to:

Computing

• GNU Octave, a program for performing numerical analysis, mostly compatible with MATLAB
• OCTAVE, Operationally Critical Threat, Asset, and Vulnerability Evaluation framework developed by Carnegie Mellon and most commonly used in the defense industry.

Music

• Octave (album), an album by The Moody Blues
• The Octāves, an all-male a cappella group from the University of Richmond

Literature

• Octave (poetry), the first eight lines of a sonnet
• Sicilian octave, a distinct poetic form
• Ottava rima, an Italian verse form

People

• Octave Chanute, French-born American railway engineer and aviation pioneer.
• Octave Levenspiel, American professor of chemical engineering.
• Octave Mirbeau, French journalist.
• Octave Tassaert, French painter.

Science

• Octave (electronics) a doubling or halving of frequency, in physics and engineering
• Electromagnetic radiation can be divided into eighty-one octaves
• "The Law of Octaves" is a concept from the history of the development of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements (see John Newlands or Mendeleev)
• an early term for octonion in algebra
• GNU Octave is a high-level programming language, primarily intended for numerical computations

Other

• Octave celebration, a major religious celebration in Luxembourg
• Octave (horse), a champion graded stakes race thoroughbred racehorse
• Octave (liturgical), an eight-day feast in the liturgical sense, especially in the Roman Catholic tradition

See also

• Hurricane Octave (disambiguation)