gamut

Meanings

1. A (normally) complete range.
2. All the notes in a musical scale.
3. All the colours that can be presented by a device such as a monitor or printer.

Etymology

1520s, original sense “lowest note of musical scale”, contraction of Medieval Latin gamma ut, from gamma (“Greek letter, corresponding to the musical note G”) + ut (“first solfège syllable, now replaced by do”). In modern terms, “G do” – the first note of the G scale. Meaning later extended to mean all the notes of a scale, and then more generally any complete range.