Meaning of sedecuple | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Sixteenfold.
   not-comparable, rare
2. Sixteen times as great or as numerous.
   not-comparable, rare
3. Sixteen-to-one.
   not-comparable, rare
4. Comprising sixteen repeated elements.
   not-comparable, rare

Examples

“If for duple we had ſubſtituted triple, quadruple, quintuple, &c. the action would have come out noncuple, ſedecuple, 25ple.”

“As an example, let us take a ratio which is two-thirds of a quadruple. Since 2 is the numerator, we shall have one-third of a quadruple ratio squared, namely a sedecuple ratio.”

“Gozzini and Iannuzzi (1960) proposed the use of sixteen microwave spectrometer systems connected in parallel and fed by the same source. It is interesting to note that this sedecuple arrangement did not burgeon forth from an opulent American laboratory.”

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