gamut

(găm'ət)
n.

1. A complete range or extent: a face that expressed a gamut of emotions, from rage to peaceful contentment.
2. Music. The entire series of recognized notes.

[Middle English, the musical scale, from Medieval Latin gamma ut, low G : gamma, lowest note of the medieval scale (from Greek, gamma; see gamma) + ut, first note of the lowest hexachord (after ut, first word in a Latin hymn to Saint John the Baptist, the initial syllables of successive lines of which were sung to the notes of an ascending scale CDEFGA: Ut queant laxis resonare fibris Mira gestorum famuli tuorum, Solve polluti labii reatum, Sancte Iohannes).]

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In music, gamut properly means 'the note G at the pitch now indicated by the lowest line of the bass staff'. (The word is formed from medieval Latin gamma (= the note G) + ut, the first of six arbitrary names forming the hexachord (ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la); these were said to be taken from the initial letters of a sequence of Latin words in the office hymn for St John the Baptist's day.) It was later extended to mean 'the whole series of notes used in medieval or modern music', and this has given rise to the generalized meaning 'the whole series or range or scope of anything' which chiefly occurs in the expression run (or be put through the (full) gamut (= experience the whole range of):

Both men were put through the full gamut of emotions—Irish News, 2003.

Beware of confusing gamut idiomatically with gauntlet: ☒ No need to run the gamut of residents parking until next January—Times, 2007.

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The entire range of colors available on a particular device such as a monitor or printer. A monitor, which displays RGB signals, typically has a greater color gamut than a printer, which uses CMYK inks. When a color is "out of gamut," it cannot be properly converted to the target device; for example, to a different type of printer. See color management system and color space.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - skala, tonestige

idioms:

• run the gamut    løbe skalaen igennem

Nederlands (Dutch)
toonladder, bereik (muziek), scala

Français (French)
n. - éventail, (Mus, fig) gamme

idioms:

• run the gamut    passer par tout l'éventail de qch

Deutsch (German)
n. - Skala, Tonleiter, (Ton)umfang

idioms:

• run the gamut    die ganze Skala durchgehen

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (μουσ.) μουσική κλίμακα, γκάμα, # γενικότερο πλαίσιο

idioms:

• run the gamut    καλύπτω όλο το φάσμα

Italiano (Italian)
gamma, scala diatonica

idioms:

• run the gamut    provare ogni tipo di (esperienze, sentimenti ...)

Português (Portuguese)
n. - escala (f) (Mús.), gama (f)

idioms:

• run the gamut    passar por toda a gama (de sentimentos)

Русский (Russian)
гамма, диапазон, полнота чего-либо

idioms:

• run the gamut    передавать или испытывать что-либо во всей его полноте

Español (Spanish)
n. - gama, escala, serie

idioms:

• run the gamut    probar todas las posibilidades de, recorrer toda la gama de

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - tonskala (mus.), register

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
全音阶, 全音域, 长音阶

idioms:

• run the gamut    涵盖整个范围

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 全音階, 全音域, 長音階

idioms:

• run the gamut    涵蓋整個範圍

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 전범위

idioms:

• run the gamut    갖은 표현을 다하다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - ガンマウト, 長音階, 全領域, 全範囲, 全音階, 全音域

idioms:

• run the gamut    全ての関連分野を経験する

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) سلم النغم‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮מלוא הטווח, מלוא הקשת, היקף מלא, סולם (במוסיקה), כל הצלילים המוסיקליים, טווח הצלילים של קול או כלי‬

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