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Octet may refer to:

Music [ edit ]

• 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 [ edit ]

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

Science and technology [ edit ]

• 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 [ edit ]

• 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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