sesquiple

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adjective

Sesquiplicate.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

adjectivesesquiple (not comparable)
  1. not comparablerareSesquiplicate.

    […] if, however, they did, Mr. Smith has taken a sesquiple allowance.

    1838, A. Maxwell, The Monthly Law Magazine and Political Review, Volume 2
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    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 1

    Stoney 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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