| 单词 | octet | 
| 释义 | oc·tet    (ŏk-tĕt)n. 1.  Music   a.  A composition for eight voices or eight instruments. b.  A group of eight singers or eight instrumentalists. 2.  A group of eight: "A train of heavy wagons rumbled north on the Winnipeg Trail, drawn by octets of oxen" (Garrison Keillor). 3.  See  octave. 4.  A set of eight valence electrons in an atom or ion, forming a stable configuration. [Alteration  (influenced by OCTO- and DUET) of Italian ottetto, from otto, eight, from Latin octō; see  oktō(u) in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]  | 
	
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