Diapason vs. Principal — What's the Difference?

A full, rich outpouring of harmonious sound.

First in order of importance; main

The entire range of an instrument or voice.

Denoting an original sum invested or lent

Either of the two principal stops on a pipe organ that form the tonal basis for the entire scale of the instrument.

The most important or senior person in an organization or group

The interval and the consonance of an octave.

A sum of money lent or invested, on which interest is paid

A standard indication of pitch.

A person for whom another acts as an agent or representative

A tuning fork.

The person directly responsible for a crime.

(music) The musical octave.

A main rafter supporting purlins.

The range or scope of something, especially of notes in a scale, or of a particular musical instrument.

An organ stop sounding a main register of open flue pipes typically an octave above the diapason

(musical instrument) A tonal grouping of the flue pipes of a pipe organ.

First or highest in rank or importance.

A harmonious outpouring of sound.

Of, relating to, or being financial principal, or a principal in a financial transaction.

The octave, or interval which includes all the tones of the diatonic scale. Compare disdiapason.

One who holds a position of presiding rank, especially the head of an elementary school, middle school, or high school.

Concord, as of notes an octave apart; harmony.

A main participant in a situation, especially a financial transaction.

The entire compass of tones; the entire compass of tones of a voice or an instrument.

A person having a leading or starring role in a performance, such as the first player in a section of an orchestra.

A standard of pitch; a tuning fork; as, the French normal diapason.

An amount of capital originally borrowed or invested, as opposed to the interest paid or accruing on it.

One of certain stops in the organ, so called because they extend through the scale of the instrument. They are of several kinds, as open diapason, stopped diapason, double diapason, and the like.

The most significant part of an estate, as opposed to minor or incidental components.

Either of the two main stops on a pipe organ

The person on behalf of whom an agent acts.

The person having prime responsibility for an obligation as distinguished from one who acts as surety or as an endorser.

The main actor in the perpetration of a crime.

(Architecture) Either of a pair of inclined timbers forming the sides of a triangular truss for a pitched roof.

Primary; most important; first level in importance.

Of or relating to a prince; princely.

(mathematics) Chosen or assumed among a branch of possible values of a multi-valued function so that the function is single-valued.

The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.

The chief administrator of a school.

The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.

(legal) A legal person that authorizes another (the agent) to act on their behalf; or on whose behalf an agent or gestor in a negotiorum gestio acts.

(legal) The primary participant in a crime.

(North America) A partner or owner of a business.

(music) A diapason, a type of organ stop on a pipe organ.

The construction that gives shape and strength to a roof, generally a truss of timber or iron; or, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing.

The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.

One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned

(obsolete) An essential point or rule; a principle.

A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.

(computing) A security principal.

Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree; most considerable or important; chief; main; as, the principal officers of a Government; the principal men of a state; the principal productions of a country; the principal arguments in a case.

Of or pertaining to a prince; princely.

A leader, chief, or head; one who takes the lead; one who acts independently, or who has controlling authority or influence; as, the principal of a faction, a school, a firm, etc.; - distinguished from a subordinate, abettor, auxiliary, or assistant.

The chief actor in a crime, or an abettor who is present at it, - as distinguished from an accessory.

A thing of chief or prime importance; something fundamental or especially conspicuous.

The original amount of a debt on which interest is calculated

The educator who has executive authority for a school;

An actor who plays a principal role

Capital as contrasted with the income derived from it

The major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account

Most important element;