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gamut
gamut
5 definitions found
for gamut
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Gamut \Gam"ut\, n. [F. gamme + ut the name of a musical note. F.
gamme is fr. the name of the Greek letter ?, which was used
by Guido d'Arezzo to represent the first note of his model
scale. See Gamma, and Ut.] (Mus.)
The scale.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Scale \Scale\, n. [L. scalae, pl., scala staircase, ladder; akin
to scandere to climb. See Scan; cf. Escalade.]
1. A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending. [Obs.]
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2. Hence, anything graduated, especially when employed as a
measure or rule, or marked by lines at regular intervals.
Specifically:
(a) A mathematical instrument, consisting of a slip of
wood, ivory, or metal, with one or more sets of spaces
graduated and numbered on its surface, for measuring
or laying off distances, etc., as in drawing,
plotting, and the like. See Gunter's scale.
(b) A series of spaces marked by lines, and representing
proportionately larger distances; as, a scale of
miles, yards, feet, etc., for a map or plan.
(c) A basis for a numeral system; as, the decimal scale;
the binary scale, etc.
(d) (Mus.) The graduated series of all the tones,
ascending or descending, from the keynote to its
octave; -- called also the gamut. It may be repeated
through any number of octaves. See Chromatic scale,
Diatonic scale, Major scale, and Minor scale,
under Chromatic, Diatonic, Major, and Minor.
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3. Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps
and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative
rank or order; as, a scale of being.
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There is a certain scale of duties . . . which for
want of studying in right order, all the world is in
confusion. --Milton.
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4. Relative dimensions, without difference in proportion of
parts; size or degree of the parts or components in any
complex thing, compared with other like things;
especially, the relative proportion of the linear
dimensions of the parts of a drawing, map, model, etc., to
the dimensions of the corresponding parts of the object
that is represented; as, a map on a scale of an inch to a
mile.
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Scale of chords, a graduated scale on which are given the
lengths of the chords of arcs from 0[deg] to 90[deg] in a
circle of given radius, -- used in measuring given angles
and in plotting angles of given numbers of degrees.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
gamut
n 1: a complete extent or range: "a face that expressed a gamut
of emotions"
2: the entire scale of musical notes
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
78 Moby Thesaurus words for "gamut":
Indian file, array, articulation, bank, buzz, carry, catena,
catenation, chain, chain reaction, chaining, chromatic scale,
compass, concatenation, connection, consecution, continuum, course,
cycle, descent, diapason, dodecuple scale, drone, endless belt,
endless round, enharmonic scale, field, file, filiation, gradation,
great scale, hum, line, lineage, major scale, melodic minor,
minor scale, monotone, nexus, octave scale, pendulum,
pentatonic scale, periodicity, plenum, powder train, progression,
queue, radius, range, rank, reach, recurrence, register,
reticulation, rotation, round, routine, row, run, scale, scope,
sequence, series, single file, spectrum, spread, stretch, string,
succession, swath, sweep, temperament, thread, tier, train, tuning,
whole-tone scale, windrow
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (18 March 2015) :
gamut
The gamut of a monitor is the set of colours it can display.
There are some colours which can't be made up of a mixture of
red, green and blue phosphor emissions and so can't be
displayed by any monitor.
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