sextuple
sextuple Lexical Profile
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• adjective
Consisting of six parts, elements, or members, or being six times as great or as many.
"The club achieved a historic sextuple triumph by winning all six major domestic and international tournaments in a single season."
Having six beats to the measure (of musical time or meter).
"The composer wrote the pastoral movement in sextuple meter to give the melody a gentle, rolling rhythm."
• noun
A number, amount, or group that is six times as great as another, or an ordered set of six elements.
"Each point in the six-dimensional phase space is represented mathematically as an ordered sextuple of coordinates."
• verb
To multiply or increase by six; to make or become six times as great.
"Rapid industrial expansion caused the town's population to sextuple within two decades."
• Rhymes for sextuple
Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the late 16th century from Middle French sextuple or directly from Late Latin sextuplus ('sixfold'), formed from Latin sex ('six') on the analogy of quadruplus ('fourfold').