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quattuordecimal

quattuordecimal adjective: based upon the number fourteen.

Adjective

quattuordecimal (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Based upon the number fourteen.
    • But perhaps the most surprising “most-needed additions” of this kind are “teddera, peddera, pimp, and yan-a-dick,” which are said to be numerals used for counting sheep. It is not quite clear what numbers these additions displace or whether the shepherd has really adopted a “quattuor-decimal”...1932 October 26, “Saturday Competition: New Words”, in The Manchester Guardian, number 26,875, page 18, columns 5–6
    • Reinterpret these symbols as the digits (!) in a quattuordecimal number system, i.e. a number system based on 14 in the same way that the decimal system is based on 10.1952, Stephen Cole Kleene, Introduction to Metamathematics, New York, N.Y.; Toronto, Ont.: D[avid] van Nostrand Company, Inc., page 6

Examples of quattuordecimal in a sentence

  • When he went back over his calculations to see if he could find out what had gone wrong, he found he’d dropped a quattuordecimal point.1955 February, Theodore R[ose] Cogswell, “Test Area”, in Fantastic Universe, volume 3, number 1, page 53:
  • […] 5-8 introduces a hint of melismatic complexity, inserting into its duple meter a series of triplets and a melismatic quattuordecimal (14-note) figure.2021 September, Ariella Siu-Yin Mak-Neiman, Haydn Revisited: Compositional Atavism in the Keyboard Sonatas and Trios, supporting document...

Origin of quattuordecimal

From Latin quattuordecim + -al.

Questions about quattuordecimal

What does quattuordecimal mean?
Quattuordecimal means based upon the number fourteen.
How do you use quattuordecimal in a sentence?
When he went back over his calculations to see if he could find out what had gone wrong, he found he’d dropped a quattuordecimal point.
What part of speech is quattuordecimal?
Quattuordecimal is an adjective.

Words near quattuordecimal in the dictionary

  1. Quattrones
  2. quattrotini
  3. quattuordecillion
  4. quattuordecillions
  5. quattuordecillionths
  6. quattuordecimal
  7. quattuordecuple
  8. quattuorquadragintillion
  9. quattuortrigintillion
  10. quattuorvigintillion
  11. quattuorvir

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