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suboctuple

suboctuple adjective: containing one part of eight; in the ratio of one to eight.

Adjective

suboctuple (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Containing one part of eight; in the ratio of one to eight.
    • As one of these under pulleys abates half of that heaviness of the weight, and causes the power to be in a subduple proportion; so two of them abate half of that which remains, and cause a subquadruple proportion, three a sextuple, four a suboctuple.1648, John Wilkins, Mathematicall Magick. Or, The Wonders that may be Performed by Mechanicall Geometry. […], London: […] M[iles] F[lesher] for Sa[muel] Gellibrand […], →OCLC

suboctuple meaning in Tamil

suboctuple in Tamil

எட்டிலொரு கூறுள்ள

Origin of suboctuple

From sub- + octuple.

Questions about suboctuple

What does suboctuple mean?
Suboctuple means containing one part of eight; in the ratio of one to eight.
What is suboctuple in Tamil?
Suboctuple in Tamil is எட்டிலொரு கூறுள்ள. See Suboctuple meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is suboctuple?
Suboctuple is an adjective.

Words near suboctuple in the dictionary

  1. subocean
  2. suboceanic
  3. subocellate
  4. suboctave
  5. suboctaves
  6. suboctuple
  7. subocular
  8. suboculars
  9. subodontoblast
  10. subodontoblastic
  11. suboesophageal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: suboctuple (page history and authors); suboctuple (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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