gamuts
Full extent spans
Gamuts is the plural of gamut, which originally meant the complete range of musical notes.
The meaning extends to any complete range or scope: Their emotions ran the gamuts from despair to elation.
The phrase run the gamut is so common that gamut rarely appears without it, making the plural relatively uncommon outside technical contexts in music or color theory.
Continuous variation scales
- spansReaches across a gap
- rangesContinuous extent series
- extentsDegrees of reach
- scalesPlates or weighing devices
sweeps · compasses · breadths · spreads · scopes · arrays · continuums · gradations
Plates or weighing devices
- octavesEight-tone intervals
- notesBrief written records
- tonesDistinct sound qualities
- pitchesThrows or proposals
intervals · registers · chromatic · keyboards · arpeggios · harmonics · frequencies · tuning
Emotional responses experienced internally
- emotionsPsychological feeling states
- moodsTemporary emotional states
- expressionsOutward manifestations of feeling
- reactionsResponses to events
sentiments · responses · sensations · passions · temperaments · dispositions · affects · intensities
spectrums
Continuous variation scales
scales · sweeps · compasses · breadths · spreads · scopes · arrays · continuums · gradations · sequences
scales
Plates or weighing devices
pitches · intervals · registers · chromatic · keyboards · arpeggios · harmonics · frequencies · tuning · temperament
feelings
Emotional responses experienced internally
- emotionsPsychological feeling states
- moodsTemporary emotional states
- expressionsOutward manifestations of feeling
reactions · sentiments · responses · sensations · passions · temperaments · dispositions · affects · intensities · experiences
- run the gamutCover the full range
- ran the gamutSpanned the full range
- running the gamutCovering the full range
- color gamutReproducible hue boundaries