Octet

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Octet may refer to:

Music

• Octet (music), ensemble consisting of eight instruments or voices, or composition written for such an ensemble
  • String octet, a piece of music written for eight string instruments
    • Octet (Mendelssohn), 1825 composition by Felix Mendelssohn
    • Octet (Bruch), 1920 composition by Max Bruch
  • Octet (Beethoven), 1793 composition by Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Octet (Lachner), 1850 composition by Franz Lachner
  • Octet (Reich), 1979 composition by Steve Reich
  • Octet (Reinecke),1892 composition by Carl Reinicke
  • Octet (Schubert), 1824 composition by Franz Schubert
  • Octet (Stravinsky), 1923 composition by Igor Stravinsky
• Violin octet, a family of stringed instruments
• Octet (musical), a musical by Dave Malloy

Ballet

• Octet (Christensen), 1958 ballet by Willam Christensen
• Octet (Martins), 2003 ballet by Peter Martins

Science and technology

• Octet (computing), a grouping of eight bits
  • Byte, a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits
    • Octet stream, alternative name for byte stream
• Octet rule, chemical theory stating that atoms tend to combine so they each have eight valence electrons
• Octet truss, type of space frame

See also

• 8 (disambiguation)
• Eightfold Way (physics), theory organizing subatomic baryons and mesons into octets
• Lambda cube
• Octal, base-8 number system
• Octant (solid geometry)
• Octave (poetry)
• Octetra, a sculpture by Isamu Noguchi
• Okta, a meteorological unit of measurement of cloud cover in terms of how many eighths of the sky are covered in clouds
• All pages with titles containing octet

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