Meanings
- not comparablerareSesquiplicate.
[…] if, however, they did, Mr. Smith has taken a sesquiple allowance.
1838, A. Maxwell, The Monthly Law Magazine and Political Review, Volume 22 more examples
Pythagoras, by musical proportion, calleth that a tone, by how much the moon is distant from the earth: from the moon to Mercury the half of that space, and from Mercury to Venus almost as much; from Venus to the sun, sesquiple […]
1776, Sir John Hawkins, A General History of the Science and Practice of Music in Five Volumes by Sir John Hawkins, Volume 1Stoney showed that the chemical elements could be plotted in a logarithmic spiral with a sesquiple ratio.
1941, Goodsell Observatory of Carleton College, Popular Astronomy - Volume 49
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