Octet may refer to:
Music
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Octet (music)
In music, an octet is a musical ensemble consisting of eight instruments or voices, or a musical composition written for such an ensemble.
Octets in classical music
Octets in classical music are one of the largest groupings of chamber music. Alt ...
, ensemble consisting of eight instruments or voices, or composition written for such an ensemble
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String octet, a piece of music written for eight string instruments
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Octet (Mendelssohn), 1825 composition by Felix Mendelssohn
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Octet (Bruch), 1920 composition by Max Bruch
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Octet (Beethoven), 1793 composition by Ludwig van Beethoven
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Octet (Lachner), 1850 composition by Franz Lachner
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''Octet'' (Reich), 1979 composition by Steve Reich
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Octet (Reinecke),1892 composition by Carl Reinicke
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Octet (Schubert), 1824 composition by Franz Schubert
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Octet (Stravinsky), 1923 composition by Igor Stravinsky
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Violin octet, a family of stringed instruments
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''Octet'' (musical), a musical by Dave Malloy
Ballet
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''Octet'' (Christensen), 1958 ballet by Willam Christensen
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''Octet'' (Martins), 2003 ballet by Peter Martins
Science and technology
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Octet (computing)
The octet is a unit of digital information in computing and telecommunications that consists of eight bits. The term is often used when the term byte might be ambiguous, as the byte has historically been used for storage units of a variety of s ...
, a grouping of eight bits
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Byte
The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits. Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer and for this reason it is the smallest addressable unit ...
, a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits
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byte stream
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Octet rule
The octet rule is a chemical rule of thumb that reflects the theory that main-group elements tend to bond in such a way that each atom has eight electrons in its valence shell, giving it the same electronic configuration as a noble gas. The ...
, chemical theory stating that atoms tend to combine so they each have eight valence electrons
* Octet truss, type of
space frame
In architecture and structural engineering, a space frame or space structure ( 3D truss) is a rigid, lightweight, truss-like structure constructed from interlocking struts in a geometric pattern. Space frames can be used to span large areas wit ...
See also
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8 (disambiguation)
8 is a number, numeral, and glyph.
8 or eight may also refer to:
Years
* AD 8, the eighth year of the AD era
* 8 BC, the eighth year before the AD era
Art
* The Eight (Ashcan School), a group of twentieth century painters associated with the ...
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Eightfold Way (physics), theory organizing subatomic baryons and mesons into octets
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Octal
The octal numeral system, or oct for short, is the radix, base-8 number system, and uses the Numerical digit, digits 0 to 7. This is to say that 10octal represents eight and 100octal represents sixty-four. However, English, like most languages, ...
, base-8 number system
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Octave (poetry)
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Octetra'', a sculpture by Isamu Noguchi
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Okta
In meteorology, an okta is a unit of measurement used to describe the amount of cloud cover at any given location such as a weather station. Sky conditions are estimated in terms of how many eighths of the sky are covered in cloud, ranging from ...
, a meteorological unit of measurement of cloud cover in terms of how many eighths of the sky are covered in clouds
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