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superparticular

superparticular adjective: of a natural number, being larger than another natural number by a unit fraction of that smaller number.

Adjective

superparticular (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Of a natural number, being larger than another natural number by a unit fraction of that smaller number.
    • 'Tis superparticular, sesquialtera, sesquitertia […] all those geometric proportions are too little to express it., I.iii.1.4
    • When a number contains the whole of another in itself, and some part of it besides, it is called superparticular. And if the part of the less it contains is the half, it is called sesquialter; if the third part, sesquitertian; if the fourth, sesquiquartan; if the fifth, sesquiquintan. And the like...1816, Thomas Taylor, Theoretic Arithmetic, pages 37–38
  2. Pertaining to a ratio of any whole number to the next below it (e.g. tfrac 3 2, tfrac 8 7, etc.).

Synonyms of superparticular

Origin of superparticular

From Late Latin superparticulāris.

Phrases with superparticular

Questions about superparticular

What does superparticular mean?
Superparticular means of a natural number, being larger than another natural number by a unit fraction of that smaller number.
What part of speech is superparticular?
Superparticular is an adjective.

Words near superparticular in the dictionary

  1. superparasitizes
  2. superparasitizing
  3. superpart
  4. superparticle
  5. superparticles
  6. superparticular
  7. superparticular number
  8. superparticular numbers
  9. superparticularity
  10. superpartient
  11. superpartition

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