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sedecuple

/ˌsiːdɛˈkjuːp(ə)l/

sedecuple adjective: sixteen times as great or as numerous.

Adjective

sedecuple (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Sixteen 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.1744–9, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz [aut.] and James Jurin [tr.], “Commercium Literarum” (1696) in Philoſophical Tranſactions of the Royal Society X (1756), page 184
  2. (rare) Sixteen-to-one.
    • As an example, let us take a ratio which is two-thirds of a quadruple. Since 2 is the numerator, we shall have one-third of a quadruple ratio squared, namely a sedecuple ratio.1965, Edward Grant [translator], “Algorismus proportionum”, in Isis, volume LVI, translation of original by Nicole Oresme, Part I, page 333
  3. (rare) Comprising sixteen repeated elements.
    • Gozzini and Iannuzzi (1960) proposed the use of sixteen microwave spectrometer systems connected in parallel and fed by the same source. It is interesting to note that this sedecuple arrangement did not burgeon forth from an opulent American laboratory.1967, Charles P. Poole, Electron Spin Resonance, page 544

Verb

sedecuple (third-person singular simple present sedecuples, present participle sedecupling, simple past and past participle sedecupled)

  1. (intransitive, rare, transitive) To increase by a factor of sixteen.

Forms of sedecuple

Adjective
alternative formsexdecuple
Verb
third-person singular presentsedecuples
present participlesedecupling
past participlesedecupled
pastsedecupled

Origin of sedecuple

First attested in 1744–1749; from the Latin sēdecuplus (“sixteenfold”); compare decuple.

Questions about sedecuple

What does sedecuple mean?
Sedecuple means sixteen times as great or as numerous.
What part of speech is sedecuple?
Sedecuple can be an adjective or a verb.
How do you pronounce sedecuple?
Sedecuple is pronounced /ˌsiːdɛˈkjuːp(ə)l/ (UK).

Words near sedecuple in the dictionary

  1. sedecamycin
  2. sedecillion
  3. sedecillions
  4. sedecimal
  5. sedecimarticulate
  6. sedecuple
  7. Sedelsberg
  8. sedenion
  9. sedenionic
  10. sedenions
  11. Sedeno

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