gamut
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[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈgæm.ət/
[edit] Etymology
1520s, original sense “lowest note of musical scale”, from Medieval Latin gamma ut, from gamma (“(Greek letter, corresponding to the musical note G)”) + ut (“first solfège syllable, now replaced by do”). In modern terms, “G do” – the first note of the G scale[1] Meaning later extended to mean all the notes of a scale, and then more generally any complete range.
[edit] Noun
gamut (plural gamuts)
- A (normally) complete range.
- 19??, Dorothy Parker, review of Katharine Hepburn in the Broadway play The Lake
- She delivered a striking performance that ran the gamut of emotions, from A to B.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room Chapter 2
- The entire gamut of the view's changes should have been known to her; its winter aspect, spring, summer and autumn; how storms came up from the sea; how the moors shuddered and brightened as the clouds went over; she should have noted the red spot where the villas were building; and the criss-cross of lines where the allotments were cut...
- 19??, Dorothy Parker, review of Katharine Hepburn in the Broadway play The Lake
- (music) All the notes in the musical scale.
- All the colours available to a device such as a monitor or printer.
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complete range
all the notes in the musical scale
all the colours available to a device
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