different between octa vs octal

English

Alternative forms

• okta

Etymology

See octa-.

Noun

octa (plural octas)

1. (meteorology) The proportion of the sky that is obscured by clouds, in eighths (one octa means that one eighth of the sky is obscured, two octas that one quarter is obscured, and so on).
   • 1935, Indian Science News Association, Science and Culture, Indian Science News Association, Page 93

     It has been shown that most of the flood-rainy days are associatied with 6-8 'octa ScFb, CuSc in the morning and CuSc, ScFb with or without Cb in the afternoon of the previous day.

   • 1994, Commission of the European Communities / R. Dogniaux (Ed.), Prediction of Solar Radiation in Areas With a Specific Microclimate, Kluwer Academic Publishers, ?ISBN, Page 23

     This method does not give any information on the distribution of clouds in the sky dome. But it presents the advantage of an objective method by eliminating the source of error due to personal appreciation of the fraction of the sky covered by clouds, as is the case in the classical climatorlogical observation of the cloudiness expressed in octa (N = 0 corresponding to cloudless sky and N = 8, to overcast sky in this scale).

   • 1998, Ralf Koppmann and Jochen Rudolph, Atmospheric Measurements During Popcorn: Characterisation of the Photochemistry Over a Rural Area, Springer, Page 169

     In Figure 4 we compare the photolysis frequencies of different processes in scatter plots, including all measurements from the field campaign over a variety of meteorological conditions (? = 40-90°, 296-380 DU total ozone, 0-8 octa cloud cover, 9-35 °C ambient temperature).

Anagrams

• ATOC, CATO, Cato, Cota, TACO, coat, taco

Catalan

Noun

octa f (plural octes)

1. (meteorology) octa

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??k.t?l/

Noun

octal (countable and uncountable, plural octals) (abbreviated oct)

1. (arithmetic, computing, uncountable) The number system that uses the eight digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
2. (arithmetic, computing, countable) A digit or value in the octal number system.

Synonyms

• (system): base 8, octonary (not used in computing)

Adjective

octal (not comparable)

1. (arithmetic, computing) Concerning numbers expressed in octal or mathematical calculations performed using octal.

Synonyms

• base-8

Translations

See also

• base
• binary
• decimal
• hexadecimal

Anagrams

• actol, lacto-, tlaco

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ok?tal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /uk?tal/
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

octal (masculine and feminine plural octals)

1. octal

Noun

octal m (plural octals)

1. octal

Further reading

• “octal” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “octal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Romanian

Etymology

From French octale

Adjective

octal m or n (feminine singular octal?, masculine plural octali, feminine and neuter plural octale)

1. octal

Declension