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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
- Octet (Beethoven), 1793 composition by Ludwig van Beethoven
- Octet (Lachner), 1850 composition by Franz Lachner
- Octet (Mendelssohn), 1825 composition by Felix Mendelssohn
- 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
- String octet, a piece of music written for eight string instruments
- Violin octet, a family of stringed instruments
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
- Byte, a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits
- 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
- Octal, base-8 number system
- 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 cloud.
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