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gamut Definition

gamut (gamət)

noun

  1. 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
  2. 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

n.

compass, range, sweep, scale; see extent, range 2. See syn. study at range.

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.

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