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sesquitertias

sesquitertias is the plural of sesquitertia.

Meaning of sesquitertia

Noun

sesquitertia (countable and uncountable, plural sesquitertias)

  1. (obsolete) A ratio of 4 to 3.
    • For, what proportion, 100 hath to 75: the same hath 17 1/7 to 12 6/7: Which is Sesquitertia: that is, as 4, to 3. which make 7.1570, John Dee, in H. Billingsley (trans.) Euclid, Elements of Geometry, Preface
  2. (obsolete) A perfect fourth, an interval having the ratio of 1 to 1⅓, or 3 to 4.

Questions about sesquitertias

What is sesquitertias the plural of?
Sesquitertias is the plural of sesquitertia.

Words near sesquitertias in the dictionary

  1. sesquiterpenols
  2. sesquitertia
  3. sesquitertial
  4. sesquitertian
  5. sesquitertianal
  6. sesquitertias
  7. sesquithujene
  8. sesquitone
  9. sesquitones
  10. sesquizygotic
  11. sesquizygous

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