Definition of: gamut

(gam′ət) noun
1. Music The diatonic scale of musical notes.
2. The whole range of anything: the gamut of emotions. [<Med. L gamma ut <gamma, the first note of the early musical scale + ut (later, do); the names of the notes of the scale were taken from a medieval Latin hymn: Ut queant laxis Resonare fibris. Mira gestorum Famuli tuorum, Solve polluti Labii reatum, Sancte Iohannes]