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What (who) is octet - definition
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Octets; Octet (disambiguation); Octet (ballet)
octet
[?k't?t]
¦ noun
1. a group of eight musicians.
a musical composition for eight voices or instruments.
2. a group of eight lines of verse.
3. Chemistry a stable group of eight electrons occupying a single shell in an atom.
Origin
C19: from Ital. ottetto or Ger. Oktett, on the pattern of duet and quartet.
octet
<jargon, networking> Eight bits. This term is used in
networking, in preference to byte, because some systems use
the term "byte" for things that are not 8 bits long.
(1995-03-03)
Octet
·noun A composition for eight parts, usually for eight solo instruments or voices.
Examples of use of octet
1. Place÷ METU Viþnelik Grass Amphitheater Ticket price÷ YTL 22 ACTIVITIES IN EFES÷ Alt– Wiener Octet – Concert/Classical Time÷ Wednesday, July 13 at '.30 p.m.
2. Place: Club Sur Ticket price: YTL 23 Trilok Gurtu – Mercan Dede – Karl Berger Octet –– Concert/World Time: Thursday, July 6 at ' p.m.
3. Four Philharmonic musicians joined four North Koreans in a chamber music concert, playing Mendelssohn‘s "Octet for Strings" with no previous rehearsal.
4. This year, the Emerson String Quartet, with whom he plays cello, won two Grammys for their recording of all eight parts of the Mendelssohn Octet.
5. His friends from the days of the famous Labor party "Octet" have also stood by his side÷ Nawaf Masalha, Haggai Merom and Avraham Burg.