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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In music:
  2. n. The first or gravest note in Guido's scale of music; gamma ut.
  3. n. The major scale, whether indicated by notes or syllables, or merely sung.
  4. n. A scale on which notes in music are written or printed, consisting of lines and spaces which are named after the first seven letters of the alphabet.
  5. n. In old Eng. church music, the key of G. Also gamma.
  6. n. Figuratively, the whole scale, range, or compass of a thing.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A (normally) complete range.
  2. n. music All the notes in the musical scale.
  3. n. All the colours available to a device such as a monitor or printer.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Mus.) The scale.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the entire scale of musical notes
  2. n. a complete extent or range:

Etymologies

  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). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. scale
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  1. compass
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  1. scale
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  • jwjarvis gamut of communication tools Sep 30, 2010

  • sionnach So would Tut-tut be the tonic of a defunct Guidonian hexapharaoh. The kind of pick-me-up my mummy used to prepare for me.

    Seriously, that is a cool explanation. Though I'm surprised nobody has yet sullied this page with the quote about the Hollywood starlet whose emotions "ran the gamut from A to B". Sep 12, 2008

  • elisheba thanks for this explanation, shevek! Sep 12, 2008

  • shevek Comes from the lowest note in medieval music pedagogy, which was called Gamma-Ut. Gamma because it was lowest octave of the note G, Ut because it was the tonic of a Guidonian hexachord. Sep 12, 2008

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