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epogdoon

epogdoon noun: a number equal to another plus an eighth thereof; a number 1.125 times another.

Noun

epogdoon (plural not attested)

  1. (no plural, rare, Ancient Greece) A number equal to another plus an eighth thereof; a number 1.125 times another.
    • Eighteen... bears the epogdoon relation to sixteen, which is broken up by the intervention of seventeen, an odd number.1936, Frank Cole Babbitt translating Plutarch as "Isis and Osiris" in Moralia, Vol. V, p. 103, n.
    • We cannot say that 256 is the epogdoon of 243, for in the number 256 is not contained the whole of 243 and an eighth thereof, since an eighth of 243 is approximately 30½...2016, John Magee translating Calcidius as On Plato's Timaeus, p. 201

Origin of epogdoon

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐπόγδοον (epógdoon), from ἐπι- (epi-, “greater [by]”) + ὄγδοον (ógdoon, “an eighth part”).

Questions about epogdoon

What does epogdoon mean?
Epogdoon means a number equal to another plus an eighth thereof; a number 1.125 times another.
What part of speech is epogdoon?
Epogdoon is a noun.

Words near epogdoon in the dictionary

  1. epodic
  2. epoE
  3. epoetin
  4. epoetins
  5. epoF
  6. epogdoon
  7. epoicotheriid
  8. epoicotheriids
  9. epollicate
  10. epomania
  11. EPON

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