sedecuple — Английский словарь

Прилагательное

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

   Употребление

   • not-comparable
   • редкое

   Примеры

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

2. Sixteenfold. Sixteen-to-one.

   Употребление

   • not-comparable
   • редкое
   • of a ratio

   Примеры

   Другие примеры (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.

   Употребление

   • not-comparable
   • редкое

   Примеры

   Другие примеры (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.

Глагол

1. To increase by a factor of sixteen.

   Употребление

   • непереходный глагол
   • редкое
   • переходный глагол

   Связанные слова

   quindecupleseptemdecuple