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heptamerides

heptamerides is the plural of heptameride.

Meaning of heptameride

Noun

heptameride (plural heptamerides)

  1. 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
  2. (dated) 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.
  3. (obsolete) 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

Questions about heptamerides

What is heptamerides the plural of?
Heptamerides is the plural of heptameride.

Words near heptamerides in the dictionary

  1. heptamagnesium
  2. heptamanganese
  3. heptamer
  4. heptameric
  5. heptameride
  6. heptamerides
  7. heptamerization
  8. heptamerizations
  9. heptamerize
  10. heptamerized
  11. heptamerizing

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