gamut

See also: Gamut

English

Etymology

1520s, original sense “lowest note of musical scale”, from 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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡæm.ət/, /ˈɡæm.ɪt/

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• Rhymes: -æmɪt

Noun

gamut (plural gamuts)

1. A (normally) complete range.
   • 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):

     I must begin with rudiments of Art / To teach you gamoth in a briefer sort, - -
     Bian. Why, I am past my gamouth long agoe.

   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, chapter 2, in Jacob’s Room:

     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...

   • 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.

   • 1960 December, “New reading on railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 776:

     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.

2. (music) All the notes in a musical scale.
3. All the colours that can be presented by a device such as a monitor or printer.

Derived terms

• run the gamut

Related terms

• ut

Translations

complete range

• Arabic: أَمْر بِرُمَتِه (ʔamr birumatih)
• Bulgarian: диапазон m (diapazon)
• Catalan: gamma (ca) f
• Czech: škála (cs) f, rozsah (cs) m
• Dutch: gamma (nl), pallet (nl)
• Esperanto: gamo (eo)
• Finnish: kirjo (fi), skaala (fi), asteikko (fi)
• French: gamme (fr) f, palette (fr) f
• Georgian: გამა (gama), დიაპაზონი (diaṗazoni)
• German: Skala (de) f, Palette (de) f
• Greek: γκάμα (el) f (gkáma)
• Hungarian: skála (hu)
• Icelandic: skali m, svið n, röð (is) f
• Japanese: 全領域 (zen-ryōiki)
• Korean: 전반 (ko) (jeonban), 전영역 (jeonnyeong'yeok)
• Luxembourgish: Gamm f
• Polish: gama (pl) f
• Portuguese: gama (pt) f
• Romanian: gamă (ro) f, paletă (ro) f
• Russian: га́мма (ru) f (gámma), диапазо́н (ru) m (diapazón), охва́т (ru) m (oxvát)
• Spanish: gama (es) f
• Swedish: skala (sv) c, register (sv) n
• Turkish: skala (tr)

all the notes in the musical scale

• Arabic: سُلَّمُ المُوسِيقَيّ (sullamu l-mūsīqayy)
• Bulgarian: гама (bg) f (gama)
• Catalan: gamma (ca) f
• Czech: škála (cs) f, rozsah (cs) m
• Dutch: toonladder (nl) f
• Esperanto: gamo (eo)
• Finnish: sävelasteikko (fi), asteikko (fi)
• French: gamme (fr) f
• Georgian: გამა (gama)
• German: Tonumfang (de) m
• Greek: κλίμακα (el) f (klímaka)
• Hungarian: hangskála (hu)
• Icelandic: tónaróf n, tónaskali m
• Polish: gama (pl) f
• Portuguese: gama (pt) f
• Romanian: gamă (ro) f
• Russian: га́мма (ru) f (gámma)
• Spanish: gama (es) f
• Turkish: gam (tr)

all the colours available to a device

• Arabic: سلسلة اللونية
• Bulgarian: палитра (bg) f (palitra)
• Catalan: gamma (ca) f
• Czech: (barevná) škála (cs) f, paleta (cs) f
• Finnish: väriala, värintoistoalue, värintoistoala
• French: gamme (fr) f, palette (fr) f
• Georgian: გამა (gama), პალიტრა (ṗaliṭra)
• German: Farbumfang m, Gamut m
• Hungarian: színskála (hu)
• Ido: kolor-serio
• Norwegian: palett m
• Portuguese: gama (pt) f
• Romanian: paletă (ro) f, gamă (ro) f
• Russian: га́мма (ru) f (gámma), диапазо́н (ru) m (diapazón), охва́т (ru) m (oxvát)
• Spanish: gama (es) f
• Turkish: renk paleti

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Arabic: سلم النغم m, ^{(please verify)} سلسلَة كاملَة f
• Ido: ^{(please verify)} gamo (io)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} gamma (it) f
• Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 全部 (zh) (quánbù)
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} kapsam (tr)

References

• “gamut”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Central Dusun

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀamut.

Noun

gamut

1. root

Coastal Kadazan

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀamut.

Noun

gamut

1. root

Dibabawon Manobo

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *ʀamut, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀamut (“fibrous roots”).

Noun

gamut

1. root (of a plant)

Maguindanao

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *ʀamut, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀamut (“fibrous roots”).

Noun

gamut

1. medicine

Derived terms

• gamutan
• magamut

 

Rungus

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀamut.

Noun

gamut

1. root

Tausug

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀamut.

Pronunciation

• (Sinūgan Parianun) IPA^(key): /ɡamut/ [ɡɑˈmut̪̚]
• Rhymes: -ut
• Syllabification: ga‧mut

Noun

gamut

1. root

Tobilung

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀamut.

Noun

gamut

1. root

Yakan

Noun

gamut

1. root

Yogad

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *ʀamut, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀamut (“fibrous roots”).

Noun

gamút

1. root (of a plant)