Gamut vs Gamma - What's the difference?
gamut | gamma |
A (normally) complete range.
* 19?? , (Dorothy Parker), review of (Katharine Hepburn) in the Broadway play (The Lake)
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), Chapter 2
(music) All the notes in the musical scale.
All the colours available to a device such as a monitor or printer.
The name of the third letter of the Greek alphabet ( ).
(mathematics) The (Gamma function), symbolized by ?.
(mathematics) A constant approximately equal to 0.55721566, symbolized by ?.
(physics) A unit of magnetic field equal to 1 nT.
As nouns the difference between gamut and gamma
is that gamut is a (normally) complete range while gamma is the name of the third letter of the Greek alphabet (Γ, γ), preceded by beta (Β, β) and followed by delta, (Δ, δ).gamut
English
Noun
(en noun)- She delivered a striking performance that ran the gamut of emotions, from A to B.
- 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...
