suboctuple

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adjective

Containing one part of eight; in the ratio of one to eight.

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Meanings

adjectivesuboctuple (not comparable)
  1. not comparableobsoleteContaining one part of eight; in the ratio of one to eight.

    As one of these under pulleys abates half of that heaviness of the weight, and causes the power to be in a subduple proportion; so two of them abate half of that which remains, and cause a subquadruple proportion, three a sextuple, four a suboctuple.

    1648, John Wilkins, Mathematicall Magick. Or, The Wonders that may be Performed by Mechanicall Geometry. […], London: […] M[iles] F[lesher] for Sa[muel] Gellibrand […], →OCLC

Origin

From sub- + octuple.

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APA

suboctuple. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/suboctuple

MLA

“suboctuple.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/suboctuple. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “suboctuple,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/suboctuple.

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