gamut Definition
gamut (gam′ət)
noun
- Music
- the lowest note of the medieval scale, corresponding to modern G below middle C
- the complete medieval scale
- the entire series of recognized notes in modern music
- any complete musical scale, esp. the major scale
- the entire range or extent, as of emotions
Etymology: ML gamma ut < gamma, the gamut, name used by Guido d'Arezzo for the lowest note of his scale (< Gr gamma, gamma) + ut < L ut, that, used as a musical note, taken from a medieval song whose phrases began on successive ascending major tones: Ut queant laxis Resonare fibris, Mira gestorum Famuli tuorum, Solve polluti Labii reatum, Sancte Iohannes
gamut Synonyms
gamut Usage Examples
Converse of object
- run: Your name must run the full gamut on the list to produce the end results.
- span: Personal MUD rooms span the gamut from a book-lined tree house, to a padded cell, to the inside of a television set.
- encompass: Its membership encompasses the whole gamut of science, technology and medicine.
- cover: Much of the material is rarely heard or is original, covering the whole gamut of Scottish piping at its glorious best.
Adjective modifier
- whole: The film contains footage of the whole gamut of Royal Navy ships of the time.
- entire: Both combined to take everyone in the hall through the entire gamut of emotions in barely ten minutes.
- wide: The new ink produces a wider color gamut allowing you to print a wider range of colors.
- full: Your name must run the full gamut on the list to produce the end results.
- usual: Beyond the usual gamut of sporting activities, there's also hill walking, ballroom dancing, surfing -- the list goes on.
Modifies a noun
- compression: The color specifications passed to the gamut compression procedure have already been adjusted to the Screen White Point.
- mapping: In section 2, we review Forsyth's gamut mapping approach to color constancy, its limitations how these can be overcome.
- procedure: The color specifications passed to the gamut compression procedure have already been adjusted to the Screen White Point.
Noun used with modifier
- color: There are some issues with how, exactly, " color gamut " was being interpreted there.
- color: The new ink produces a wider color gamut allowing you to print a wider range of colors.
- device: The problem is how best to approximate the non displayable colors, the out of gamut colors, using ones within the device gamut.
Possessives
screen: This is a reasonable assumption, because the client is trying to query the screen's color gamut.
Preposition: of
- emotion: Both combined to take everyone in the hall through the entire gamut of emotions in barely ten minutes.
- possibility: Within this book you can experience the whole gamut of possibility in digital art.
- color: Because of the way our eyes perceive color, this is sufficient to span most of the gamut of colors we can see.
- style: They cleverly run a gamut of musical styles on this rich masterpiece.
Browse dictionary entries near gamut
- ‹ gamp
- ‹ Gamow
- ‹ -gamous
- ‹ gamosepalous
- ‹ gamophyllous
- ‹ gamopetalous
- ‹ gamogenesis
- ‹ gamo-
- ‹ gammy
- ‹ gammon
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- Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand ›

