gamut en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
1520s, original sense “lowest note of musical scale”, contraction of Medieval Latin gamma ut, from gamma (“Greek letter, corresponding to the musical note G”) + ut (“first solfège syllable, now replaced by do”). In modern terms, “G do” – the first note of the G scale. Meaning later extended to mean all the notes of a scale, and then more generally any complete range.
Meanings
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A (normally) complete range.
The entire gamut of the view's changes should have been known to her; its winter aspect, spring, summer and autumn; how storms came up from the sea; how the moors shuddered and brightened as the clouds went over; she should have noted the red spot where the villas were building; and the criss-cross of lines where the allotments were cut...
1922, Virginia Woolf, chapter 2, in Jacob’s Room:1933?, Dorothy Parker, review of Katharine Hepburn in the Broadway play The Lake She delivered a striking performance that ran the gamut of emotions, from A to B.
I must begin with rudiments of Art / To teach you gamoth in a briefer sort, - - Bian. Why, I am past my gamouth long agoe.
c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):THE LONDON BRIGHTON & SOUTH COAST RAILWAY. By C. Hamilton Ellis. Ian Allan. 30s. [...] In the course of its pages the author runs through the whole gamut of the locomotives that have during the period under review run on the rails of the L.B. & S.C. and its forebears.
1960 December, “New reading on railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 776:
- All the notes in a musical scale.
- All the colours that can be presented by a device such as a monitor or printer.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| gamuts | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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Translations (85)
ka დიაპაზონი (complete range) · ru га́мма (all the notes in the musical scale) · ro gamă (all the notes in the musical scale) · ka პალიტრა (all the colours available to a device) · de Gamut (all the colours available to a device) · fr gamme (all the colours available to a device) · ro gamă (complete range) · nl toonladder (all the notes in the musical scale) · ro paletă (all the colours available to a device) · ca gamma (all the notes in the musical scale) · hu skála (complete range) · fr gamme (all the notes in the musical scale) · ja 全領域 (complete range) · ro paletă (complete range) · fr palette (all the colours available to a device) · pl gama (complete range) · de Farbumfang (all the colours available to a device) · hu színskála (all the colours available to a device) · ar سُلَّمُ المُوسِيقَيّ (all the notes in the musical scale) · nl gamma (complete range) · de Skala (complete range) · es gama (complete range) · fi värintoistoalue (all the colours available to a device) · fi värintoistoala (all the colours available to a device) · ko 전영역 (complete range) · ar أَمْر بِرُمَتِه (complete range) · ru охва́т (complete range) · cs (barevná) škála (all the colours available to a device) · cs rozsah (complete range) · ru га́мма (complete range) · ca gamma (complete range) · ka გამა (all the notes in the musical scale) · cs škála (complete range) · is tónaróf (all the notes in the musical scale) · fi asteikko (all the notes in the musical scale) · cs rozsah (all the notes in the musical scale) · fr gamme (complete range) · sv register (complete range) · ko 전반 (complete range) · fi kirjo (complete range) · de Palette (complete range) · el γκάμα (complete range) · tr skala (complete range) · tr renk paleti (all the colours available to a device) · pt gama (all the colours available to a device) · pt gama (complete range) · pt gama (all the notes in the musical scale) · eo gamo (complete range) · ru диапазо́н (all the colours available to a device) · eo gamo (all the notes in the musical scale) · ro gamă (all the colours available to a device) · fr palette (complete range) · cs paleta (all the colours available to a device) · cs škála (all the notes in the musical scale) · sv skala (complete range) · es gama (all the colours available to a device) · ka გამა (complete range) · no palett (all the colours available to a device) · tr gam (all the notes in the musical scale) · nl pallet (complete range) · is svið (complete range) · ca gamma (all the colours available to a device) · el κλίμακα (all the notes in the musical scale) · is röð (complete range) · io kolor-serio (all the colours available to a device) · de Tonumfang (all the notes in the musical scale) · fi väriala (all the colours available to a device) · ru диапазо́н (complete range) · fi sävelasteikko (all the notes in the musical scale) · hu hangskála (all the notes in the musical scale) · es gama (all the notes in the musical scale) · ru га́мма (all the colours available to a device) · is skali (complete range) · fi asteikko (complete range) · bg палитра (all the colours available to a device) · bg гама (all the notes in the musical scale) · ka გამა (all the colours available to a device) · lb Gamm (complete range) · ru охва́т (all the colours available to a device) · is tónaskali (all the notes in the musical scale) · fi skaala (complete range) · ar سلسلة اللونية (all the colours available to a device) · fr gamut (all the colours available to a device) · bg диапазон (complete range) · pl gama (all the notes in the musical scale)