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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

范围

Pronunciation / Transliteration: fàn wéi

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Gamut/ˈɡæm.ət/
nounCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #4500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"这次展览展出了从传统到现代的全系列作品。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The complete range or scope of something.

    "The exhibition runs the gamut from early sketches to monumental sculptures."
  2. 2

    The complete range of colors available to a particular display system, printer, or image.

    "This new monitor is capable of displaying a much wider color gamut."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the medieval Latin musical term 'gamut', which combined 'gamma' (the Greek letter used for the lowest note on the medieval scale) and 'ut' (the first syllable of the Guidonian gamut, corresponding to the note C). Over centuries, its meaning expanded from the entire range of musical notes to encompass the full compass, range, or scope of any emotion, color, or experience.

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