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Webster 1913 Edition


Sextuple

Sex′tu-ple

,
Adj.
[Formed (in imitation of
quadruple
) fr. L.
sextus
sixth: cf. F.
sextuple
.]
1.
Six times as much; sixfold.
2.
(Mus.)
Divisible by six; having six beats;
as,
sixtuple
measure
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Sextuple

SEX'TUPLE

,
Adj.
[Low L. sextuplus; sex, six, and duplus, double.]
1. Sixfold; six times as much.
2. In music, denoting a mixed sort of triple, beaten in double time, or a measure of two times composed of six equal notes, three for each time.

Definition 2024


sextuple

sextuple

See also: sextuplé

English

English numbers
60
 <  5 6 7  > 
    Cardinal : six
    Ordinal : sixth
    Multiplier : sextuple

Noun

sextuple (plural sextuples)

  1. a sixfold amount

Adjective

sextuple (not comparable)

  1. Having six parts
  2. Being six times as great
  3. (music) Having six beats to the bar

Verb

sextuple (third-person singular simple present sextuples, present participle sextupling, simple past and past participle sextupled)

  1. To make, or to become, six times as much (or as many)

See also

Coefficient Noun Result
1 single singlet
2 double doublet
twin
3 triple triplet
4 quadruple quadruplet
5 quintuple
pentuple
quintuplet
pentuplet
6 sextuple
hextuple
sextuplet
hextuplet
7 septuple
heptuple
septuplet
heptuplet
8 octuple octuplet
9 nonuple nonuplet
10 decuple decuplet
11 undecuple
hendecuple
undecuplet
hendecuplet
12 duodecuple duodecuplet
13 tredecuple tredecuplet
100 centuple centuplet
many multiple multiplet

French

Verb

sextuple

  1. first-person singular present indicative of sextupler
  2. third-person singular present indicative of sextupler
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of sextupler
  4. first-person singular present subjunctive of sextupler
  5. second-person singular imperative of sextupler