gamut Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a complete extent or range: "a face that expressed a gamut of emotions"
  2. noun the entire scale of musical notes

WordNet

Gam"ut noun
Etymology
F. gamme + ut the name of a musical note. F. gamme is fr. the name of the Greek letter , which was used by Guido d'Arezzo to represent the first note of his model scale. See Gamma, and Ut.
Definitions
  1. (Mus.) The scale.

Webster 1913