sedecuple

alternative sexdecuple

1. Sixteenfold.
   1. not comparablerareSixteen times as great or as numerous.

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

      1744–9, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz [aut.] and James Jurin [tr.], “Commercium Literarum” (1696) in Philoſophical Tranſactions of the Royal Society X (1756), page 184

   2. not comparablerareSixteen-to-one.

      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.

      1965, Edward Grant [translator], “Algorismus proportionum”, in Isis, volume LVI, translation of original by Nicole Oresme, Part I, page 333

   3. not comparablerareComprising sixteen repeated elements.

      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.

      1967, Charles P. Poole, Electron Spin Resonance, page 544

present singular third person sedecuples · participle present sedecupling · participle past sedecupled · past sedecupled · alternative sexdecuple

1. intransitiveraretransitiveTo increase by a factor of sixteen.