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octet in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Octet may
refer to:
Octet (music),
ensemble consisting of
eight instruments or voices, or composition...
- 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...
- 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...
- The
violin octet is a
family of
stringed instruments developed in the 20th
century primarily under the
direction of the
American luthier Carleen Hutchins...
- The
String Octet in E-flat major, Op. 20, MWV R 20, was
written by the 16-year-old
Felix Mendelssohn during the fall of 1825 and
completed on October...
- half an
octet. It is also
known as half-byte or tetrade. In a
networking or
telecommunications context, the
nibble is
often called a semi-
octet, quadbit...
- each byte is an 8-bit quantity, and so the term
octet stream is
sometimes used interchangeably. An
octet may be
encoded as a
sequence of 8 bits in multiple...
-
single octet, in
which bit 8 is 1, and bits 1–7 are 0. Then, two end-of-contents
octets must
terminate the
content octets. The
contents octets encode...
-
Octet is a
chamber choir musical written and
composed by Dave
Malloy and
directed by
Annie Tippe. The show "explores
addiction and
nihilism within the...
- 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...
