Meaning of sesquialterate | Babel Free

Definitions

In a ratio of 3 to 2 or 1½ times to 1.

archaic, not-comparable

Examples

“[…]the ratio of 3 to 2, which is sesquialter, forms the symphony diapente[…]”

“People ignorant of geometry did not know the sesquialterate ratio of the sphere, cylinder, and cone, and therefor no man could know it[…]”

“from Kepler's Rule of the periodical times of the Planets being in a sesquialterate proportion of their distances from the centers of their orbs I deduced […]”

“9 and 6 are in a sesquialterate ratio.”

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