noncuple
UK/ˈnɒnkjuːpl/
noncuple adjective: nine-to-one; (in 1729 quot.) imprecisely, with any number of aliquot parts over.
Adjective
noncuple (not comparable)
- Nine-to-one; (in 1729 quot.) imprecisely, with any number of aliquot parts over.
- 36 vnto 4 is a noncuple proportion.1557, Robert Record, Whetstone of Witte, sig. Eiii
- Both triples added together […] make the proportion or amounting Ratio Noncuple, or ninefold.ante 1690, Samuel Jeake, Λογιστικη Λογια, or Arithmetick Surveighed and Reviewed (second edition, published in 1696), page 182
- Nine times greater or larger than.
- To proue that a trilater equilater Pyramis, is noncuple to a cube inscribed in it.1570, Henry Billingsley tr. Comte de Candale in The Elements of Geometrie of the Most Ancient Philosopher Euclide of Megara, f. 453
- The Space run thro’ in the double Time, is quadruple to that ran thro’ in a ſubduple Time; that run thro’ in the triple Time is noncuple.1730, Galileo Galilei, translated by Thomas Weſton, Mathematical Diſcourſes Concerning Two New Sciences Relating to Mechanicks and Local Motion, page 264
- Nine times as great or as numerous.
- If for duple we had substituted triple, quadruple, quintuple, &c. the action would have come out noncuple, sedecuple, 25ple.1744–1749, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (author) and James Jurin (translator), “Commercium Literarum” (1696) in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (1665–1800) IX (1809)...
- As the height neceſſary for acquiring any velocity increaſes or diminiſhes in the duplicate proportion of that velocity, it is evident that all the ranges with given elevations will vary in the ſame proportion, a double velocity giving a quadruple range, a triple velocity giving a noncuple range...1797, Colin Macfarquhar and George Gleig (editors), Encyclopædia Britannica (3rd edition) XV (Plant–Rana), page 544, “Projectiles”
- Divided into nine equal segments.
- In the following odd multiples above the ſeptuple arc, the mean arc may be greater than three quadrants: Thus, for inſtance, in the caſe of the noncuple arc, in which the three equidifferent arcs are the quintuple, ſeptuple, and noncuple arcs, ‛tis evident the greateſt magnitude of the ſeptuple, or...1760, Francis Maſeres, Elements of Plane Trigonometry, page 109
- Proceeding by powers of nine with exponents in integral succession (i.e.: 9¹, 9², 9³, 9⁴, ... = 9, 81, 729, 6,561, ...).
- In the noncuple series, each term exceeds the octuple of the sum of its parts, by unity.1816, Thomas Taylor, Theoretic Arithmetic, page 133
Noun
noncuple (plural not attested)
- Nine beats per measure.
- Ðe rigt hand diſcanteŧ in Noncuple uppon đe plain Triple of đe left hand.1636, Charls Butler, The Principles of Muſik in Singing and Setting, page 25
- The product of multiplying a given number by nine.
- And so on to the ninth and last [row], in which you shall find the noncuple of the number given.1690, William Leybourn, Cursus Mathematicus, 1st edition, page 181
- In the third […] you ſhall find the triple thereof. In the fourth the Quadruple thereof. In the fifth the Quintuple; and ſo on the ninth and laſt the Noncuple of the Number given.1700, William Leybourn, Arithmetick: Vulgar, Decimal, Inſtrumental, Algebraical, 7th edition, page 265
- A throw in which all of nine dice show the same value (an event whose probability of occurring is 1,679,616 to 1).
- For nine dice, to have 1 noncuple [... there is one] determinate throw [... and six] indeterminate throws.1835, G. Hervey, Hoyle’s Games, page 22
Verb
noncuple
- Make nine times greater; multiply by nine.
- If you shall quadruple the same weight it will draw down double the first distance, and noncuple will draw it down treble, etc.1674, Sir William Petty, A Discourse made before the Royal Society […] concerning the Use of Duplicate Proportion, page 117
Origin of noncuple
First attested in adjectival use in 1557, in nominal use in 1636, and in verbal use in 1674; from the post-Classical Latin noncuplus (“nine times larger than”), from the Classical Latin nōnus (“ninth”) + -cuplus; compare nonuple.
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Questions about noncuple
- What does noncuple mean?
- Noncuple means nine-to-one; (in 1729 quot.) imprecisely, with any number of aliquot parts over.
- What part of speech is noncuple?
- Noncuple can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce noncuple?
- Noncuple is pronounced /ˈnɒnkjuːpl/ (UK).
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