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Meaning of noncuple | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2
/ˈnɒnkjuːpl/

Definitions

  1. Ninefold.
    not-comparable
  2. Nine-to-one; (in 1729 quot.) imprecisely, with any number of aliquot parts over.
    not-comparable
  3. Nine times greater or larger than.
    not-comparable
  4. Nine times as great or as numerous.
    not-comparable
  5. Divided into nine equal segments.
    not-comparable, rare
  6. Proceeding by powers of nine with exponents in integral succession (i.e.: 9¹, 9², 9³, 9⁴, ... = 9, 81, 729, 6,561, ...).
    not-comparable, rare

Examples

“1557, Robert Record, Whetstone of Witte, sig. Eiii 36 vnto 4 is a noncuple proportion.”
“Both triples added together […] make the proportion or amounting Ratio Noncuple, or ninefold.”
“Let the Saltpeter be taken together with the Gun-powder in ſeveral Degrees of Superparticular and Superpartient, as Sextuple, Septuple, Octuple, Noncuple and Decuple; or Sixfold, Sevenfold, Eightfold, Ninefold and Tenfold.”
“The eighth is vacant because there is no noncuple proportion of 9/1 on the monochord.”
“To proue that a trilater equilater Pyramis, is noncuple to a cube inscribed in it.”
“The Space run thro’ in the double Time, is quadruple to that ran thro’ in a ſubduple Time; that run thro’ in the triple Time is noncuple.”
“If for duple we had substituted triple, quadruple, quintuple, &c. the action would have come out noncuple, sedecuple, 25ple.”
“1797, Colin Macfarquhar and George Gleig (editors), Encyclopædia Britannica (3rd edition) XV (Plant–Rana), page 544, “Projectiles” As the height neceſſary for acquiring any velocity increaſes or diminiſhes in the duplicate proportion of that velocity, it is evident that all the ranges with given elevations will vary in the ſame proportion, a double velocity giving a quadruple range, a triple velocity giving a noncuple range, &c.”
“The velocity of the vibrations performed by a string […] is as the square roots of the stretching weights: […] a noncuple weight will produce vibrations of triple velocity, or a triple number in the same time.”
“In the following odd multiples above the ſeptuple arc, the mean arc may be greater than three quadrants: Thus, for inſtance, in the caſe of the noncuple arc, in which the three equidifferent arcs are the quintuple, ſeptuple, and noncuple arcs, ‛tis evident the greateſt magnitude of the ſeptuple, or mean, arc, or that which it has when the noncuple arc is equal to a whole circle, is ⁷⁄₉, or ²⁸⁄₃₆, of the whole circumference, which is greater than ²⁷⁄₃₆ or ¾ of the whole circumference, or three quadrants; and ſince this is true in the noncuple arc, it follows a fortiori that it will be true in all higher multiples.”
“In the noncuple series, each term exceeds the octuple of the sum of its parts, by unity.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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