eptameride
eptameride is the alternative spelling of heptameride.
Meaning of heptameride
Noun
heptameride (plural heptamerides)
- A thing having seven parts or divisions.
- The Greeks had Seven Wise Men and Seven Sleepers, and the Pythagoreans saw magic in all the heptamerides.1914, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 186, number 4, page 45
- A seven-unit oligomer.
- The residue remaining after the separation of the heptameride is colourless and very viscous; there appears little prospect of isolating higher polymerides …1930, British Chemical Abstracts: Part A, Pure Chemistry, page 317, ISSN 0365-9259.
- An interval of pitch equal to 1/7 of a meride, or 1/301 of an octave.
- Sauveur divided the heptameride into two demi-heptamerides. One demi-heptameride is 1/602 of an octave, with frequency ratio 1:2^(1/602) = 1.001 154 or 1.993 cents, very nearly 1/12 of a ditonic comma.1984, Joseph Sauveur (trans. Rudolf Rasch), Collected Writings on Musical Acoustics: (Paris 1700-1713), →ISBN, page 28
Forms of eptameride
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Origin of eptameride
From epta- + meride.
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