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Definition of: octet
(ok·tet′) noun
1. A musical composition for eight parts or eight performers.
2. A choir of eight voices, or an orchestra of eight performers.
3. Any group of eight; especially, the first eight lines of an Italian sonnet; octave (def. 4).
4. Physics A group of eight electrons in the shell of an atom. Also oc·tette′. [<L octo eight; on analogy with duet]
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