octet
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɒkˈtɛt/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- Rhymes: -ɛt
| ← 7 | 8 | 9 → |
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| Cardinal: eight Ordinal: eighth Latinate ordinal: octonary Adverbial: eight times Multiplier: eightfold Latinate multiplier: octuple Distributive: octuply Group collective: eightsome Multipart collective: octuplet Greek or Latinate collective: octad Greek collective prefix: octo-, octa- Latinate collective prefix: octo- Fractional: eighth Latinate fractional prefix: octant- Elemental: octuplet Greek prefix: ogdo- Number of musicians: octet Number of years: octennium | ||
Noun
octet (plural octets)
- A group or set of eight of something.
- (music) A group of eight musicians performing together.
- An octet of waiters sang her "Happy Birthday".
- (music) A composition for such a group of musicians.
- (computing) A byte of eight bits. Abbreviation: o
- Synonym: byte
- (computing, rare) A group of three bits, representing any of eight possible values.
- 2003, Nitesh Dhanjani, Linux and UNIX security portable reference:
- This is done by breaking down each set of permissions (user, group, and other) to represent an octet.
Hyponyms
- octennium (years)
Derived terms
Translations
group of eight
group of eight musicians performing together
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composition for such a group
byte of eight bits — see byte
rare: byte of three bits
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Further reading
octet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “octet”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔk.tɛ/
audio (file)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “octet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /okˈtet/
Declension
Further reading
- octet in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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