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capella

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for capella.

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Quick take

A surname from Catalan.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of capella gathered in one view.

noun

A surname from Catalan.

noun

(astronomy) A bright double star in the constellation Auriga; Alpha (α) Aurigae.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for capella.

Example sentences

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I'm not sure what the relationship is between an A Capella group and entrepreneurs is...

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Barbershop quartet music (and other a capella music) is a great place to hear just intonation.

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You’ll notice this in choirs, for example, where singing a capella, the chords will follow nice integral ratios of frequencies.

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Incidentally, cheesy musical puns are the norm for barbershop and other a capella groups.

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And if an artist releases instrumental or a capella versions of their track, you can usually use this to get the other.

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Extremely technically brilliant, but their own compositions are a relatively small part of their repertoire (and still more than most a capella groups!).

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Does your Chief Science Officer really have a PhD from Capella University?

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I much rather view capella sistina in VR than trying to experience the religious exaltation while being pushed in a crowd.

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That's why you can sing something a capella and it sounds right and then you add an instrument playing the correct notes and it doesn't.

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I'm referring to songs you know intimately enough that you can sing a capella (or at least hear in your head) in the right key.

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By the time I got to senior year of college, I got the lead in the play and was performing solos with my a capella group.

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Easiest way to do this is to find a BPM tapper and tap out the BPM for your song and your a capella, and plug those numbers into your DAW's tempo changer.

Quote examples

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Small group a capella is slightly more viable, but it's very "amateur coded": even very good a capella groups perform a lot of covers, and rarely stick with one genre.

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I mean we might have to tolerate something like this from a proprietary "University" like The University of Phoenix or Capella University or ITT Technical Institute, but from Stanford?

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And in the interest of balancing the claims of the critics, I offer up the observation that UN Watch is "a lobby group with strong ties to Israel" (AFP article: Capella, Peter.

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[…] Motoyuki Arai, CEO of Japanese synthetic aperture radar (SAR) company Synspective said that he sees “huge demand” from the Japan Ministry of Defense […] Speaking to commercial imagery’s role in Ukraine, Capella Space CEO Frank Backes said Ukraine showed the value of Earth Observation (EO) data from a military tactical perspective and not just an intelligence perspective — driven by speed of access.

Proper noun examples

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With the naked eye, the Summer Triangle, Capella, Sirius, and a few other very bright stars.

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Capella has SAR sats; they were recently acquired.

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There are already commercial constellations on orbit doing EO and SAR: Planet Labs, Capella, IceEYE, Umbra, Maxar, and more.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use capella in a sentence?

I'm not sure what the relationship is between an A Capella group and entrepreneurs is...

What does capella mean?

A surname from Catalan.

What part of speech is capella?

capella is commonly used as noun.