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quindenary

quindenary adjective: containing fifteen things, or to the base of fifteen.

Adjective

quindenary (not comparable)

  1. Containing fifteen things, or to the base of fifteen.
    • […] it and M. Hermite's form ; the latter is intrinsically a quinary group of triadic products, but such representation in the case of M. Joubert's form is purely conventional and confusing, it really being a single indecomposable quindenary product.1878, James Joseph Sylvester, On an Applicaton of the New Atomic Theory, etc, appendix 1, Remarks on Differentiants expressed in terms of the differences of the roots of their parent quantics...
    • […] or 44 in the quindenary scale.1945, The American Mathematical Monthly

Origin of quindenary

From Latin quindēnārius (“containing fifteen”). Equivalent to quindene + -ary.

Questions about quindenary

What does quindenary mean?
Quindenary means containing fifteen things, or to the base of fifteen.
What part of speech is quindenary?
Quindenary is an adjective.

Words near quindenary in the dictionary

  1. quindecone
  2. quindecupartite
  3. quindecuplet
  4. quindecuplets
  5. quindecylic
  6. quindenary
  7. quindene
  8. quindenes
  9. Quindes
  10. quindicessima
  11. quindim

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