septuple

septuple adjective: seven times as much; sevenfold.

Adjective

septuple (not comparable)

Seven times as much; sevenfold.
- [Japan] will not remember our American and English missionaries as she remembers even now those great Chinese priests who once educated her youth. And she will not preserve relics of our sojourn, carefully wrapped in septuple coverings of silk, and packed way in dainty whitewood boxes, because we...1896, Lafcadio Hearn, chapter 8, in Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, page 154
- He is woozy with cold and a septuple whisky […]1984, Keri Hulme, chapter 5, in The Bone People, Penguin, published 1986, page 234

septuple (third-person singular simple present septuples, present participle septupling, simple past and past participle septupled)

(transitive) To multiply by seven.
- […] hee is rid of the Deuill. Now he that is quit of so bad a Guest, shall septuple his owne woes by his re-entertainment.1615, Thomas Adams, The Blacke Devil or The Apostate, Together with The Wolfe Worrying the Lambes, London, page 2
- The intensity of solar radiation is nearly seven times greater on Mercury than on the earth, and on Uranus 330 times less; the proportion between the two extremes being that of upwards of 2000 to one. Let any one figure to himself the condition of our globe, were the sun to be septupled, to say...1833, John Herschel, chapter 8, in A Treatise of Astronomy, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, pages 277–278
(intransitive) To increase by a factor of seven.
- […] Levi Strauss had caught a wave. Between 1962 and 1970, its sales and net profits grew fivefold and between 1970 and 1977 its sales again quintupled while profits almost septupled.1980, Landon Y. Jones, chapter 17, in Great Expectations: America and the Baby Boom Generation, New York: Ballantine, page 262

septuple (plural septuples)

A set of seven.
- If we suppose the limited region of Central Asia, where man existed, to have been deluged, and pairs and septuples of the most common animals in that region only to have been kept alive in the ark, the entire account will harmonize with natural history.1851, Edward Hitchcock, The Religion of Geology, Boston: Philips, Sampson, Lecture 4, p. 132
A sevenfold measure.
- Frozen, the vodka poured like heavy glass. A septuple? Why not.1990, Irving Weinman, chapter 2, in Virgil’s Ghost, New York: Fawcett Columbine, page 91

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Verb
third-person singular present	septuples
present participle	septupling
past participle	septupled
past	septupled
Noun
plural	septuples

Learned borrowing from Latin septuplus.

What does septuple mean?: Septuple means seven times as much; sevenfold.
What is septuple in Hindi?: Septuple in Hindi is सातगुना (sātgunā). See Septuple meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is septuple?: Septuple can be an adjective, a verb or a noun.

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