gamut

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NTSC color gamut, which is 80\% greater than that achieved through conventional UHP projectors.

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  1. noun A complete range or extent: a face that expressed a gamut of emotions, from rage to peaceful contentment.
  2. noun Music The entire series of recognized notes.

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  • Colour devices (scanners, camers, monitors, printers) have been predefined as having one and only one colour gamut, that is, the colour gamut of HDTV for a cathode ray tube monitor. —  Discussions: Message List - root
  • By default, the monitor has an extended gamut -- approximately AdobeRGB according to the specs. —  MacInTouch
  • Another study idea that I heard recently would be to take a number of children and run MRIs and blood work on them prior to any vaccination (7 weeks or so) and then do the same again after the gamut has been run. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • The reasons why run the gamut, ranging from concept selection to ......
  • The latest mix of comments from Facebook's policy groups runs a predictable gamut, with some users calling for more stringent controls while others questioned the wisdom of the crowd-sourcing approach altogether. —  Internet News
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  1. Middle English, the musical scale, from Medieval Latin gamma ut, low G : gamma, lowest note of the medieval scale (from Greek, gamma; see gamma) + ut, first note of the lowest hexachord (after ut, first word in a Latin hymn to Saint John the Baptist, the initial syllables of successive lines of which were sung to the notes of an ascending scale CDEFGA: Ut queant laxis resonare fibris Mira gestorum famuli tuorum, Solve polluti labii reatum, Sancte Iohannes).

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  1. Formerly also gammut, gam-ut (= Italian gamaut—Florio); from Middle Latin gamma ut: gamma, the gamut (from Greek γάμμα, the third letter of the Greek alphabet: see gamma); ut, a mere syllable, used as the name of the first note in singing, now called do; orig. L. ut, conjunction, that. Guido d'Arezzo (born about 990) is said to have called the seven notes of the musical scale after the first seven letters of the alphabet, a, b, c, d, e, f, g: whence the name gamma, taken from the last of the series (g, γ), applied to the whole scale. He is also said to have invented the names of the notes used in singing (ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si), after certain initial syllables of a monkish hymn to St. John, in a stanza written in sapphic meter, namely:
  2. The syllable ut has been displaced by the more sonorous do.
 

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