German

Noun

Gamut m

1. gamut (colour range available to a monitor or printer)

Synonyms

• Farb-Palette

English

Noun

gamut ‎(plural gamuts)

1. A (normally) complete range.
   • 19??, Dorothy Parker, review of Katharine Hepburn in the Broadway play The Lake

     She delivered a striking performance that ran the gamut of emotions, from A to B.

   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room Chapter 2

     The entire gamut of the view's changes should have been known to her; its winter aspect, spring, summer and autumn; how storms came up from the sea; how the moors shuddered and brightened as the clouds went over; she should have noted the red spot where the villas were building; and the criss-cross of lines where the allotments were cut...

2. (music) All the notes in the musical scale.
3. All the colours available to a device such as a monitor or printer.

Derived terms

• run the gamut

Related terms

• ut

Translations

References

1. ↑ “gamut” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).