sedecuple — Diccionario de inglés

Adjetivo

1. Sixteenfold. Sixteen times as great or as numerous.

   Uso

   • not-comparable
   • raro

   Ejemplos

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

2. Sixteenfold. Sixteen-to-one.

   Uso

   • not-comparable
   • raro
   • of a ratio

   Ejemplos

   Más ejemplos (1)

   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.

3. Sixteenfold. Comprising sixteen repeated elements.

   Uso

   • not-comparable
   • raro

   Ejemplos

   Más ejemplos (1)

   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.

Verbo

1. To increase by a factor of sixteen.

   Uso

   • intransitivo
   • raro
   • transitivo

   Palabras relacionadas

   quindecupleseptemdecuple