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The definition of gamut is the entire range or extent of something.

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An example of gamut is a clothing collection that includes every color of the rainbow.

See gamut in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

Music
1. the lowest note of the medieval scale, corresponding to modern G below middle C
2. the complete medieval scale
3. the entire series of recognized notes in modern music
4. any complete musical scale, esp. the major scale
the entire range or extent, as of emotions

Origin: 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

See gamut in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

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

Origin:

Origin: Middle English, the musical scale

Origin: , from Medieval Latin gamma ut, low G

Origin: : gamma, lowest note of the medieval scale (from Greek, gamma; see gamma)

Origin: + 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)