ˈoctuplet
[f. as prec., after triplet, etc.]
A set or combination of eight; in Mus. ‘A group of eight notes which are to be played in the time of six’ (Stainer & Barrett Dict. Mus. Terms 1898).
| 1852 De Morgan in R. P. Graves Life Sir W. R. Hamilton (1889) III. 338 Then if AB to BC, CD to DE, EF to FA, compounded, also give a ratio of equality, why not say ABCDEF are harmonics? We have then an harmonic quadruplet and sextuplet, and we might have octuplets, &c. |