Meaning of GAMUT
| Pronunciation: | | 'gamut
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- [n] a complete extent or range: "a face that expressed a gamut of emotions"
- [n] (music) the entire scale of musical notes
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| | See Also: | | ambit, compass, musical scale, orbit, range, reach, scale, scope | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Gam"ut\, n. [F. gamme + ut the name of a musical note. F.
gamme is fr. the name of the Greek letter ?, which was used
by Guido d'Arezzo to represent the first note of his model
scale. See {Gamma}, and {Ut}.] (Mus.)
The scale.
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| Computing Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | The gamut of a monitor is the set of colours it can display. There are some colours which can't be made up of a mixture of red, green and blue phosphor emissions and so can't be displayed by any monitor. |
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| | Related Terms: | | array, articulation, bank, buzz, carry, catena, catenation, chain, chain reaction, chaining, chromatic scale, compass, concatenation, connection, consecution, continuum, course, cycle, descent, diapason, dodecuple scale, drone, endless belt, endless round, enharmonic scale, field, file, filiation, gradation, great scale, hum, Indian file, line, lineage, major scale, melodic minor, minor scale, monotone, nexus, octave scale, pendulum, pentatonic scale, periodicity, plenum, powder train, progression, queue, radius, range, rank, reach, recurrence, register, reticulation, rotation, round, routine, row, run, scale, scope, sequence, series, single file, spectrum, spread, stretch, string, succession, swath, sweep, temperament, thread, tier, train, tuning, whole-tone scale, windrow |
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