superpartient

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adjective

Being or relating to a ratio where the larger value exceeds the smaller by more than one unit, as in 3 to 5.

OriginLatin superpartiens →
Scrabble 17
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Meanings

adjectivesuperpartient (not comparable)
  1. archaicnot comparablemathematicsBeing or relating to a ratio where the larger value exceeds the smaller by more than one unit, as in 3 to 5.

    [W]e proceed to a Superpartient Reaſon, which is when the Antecedent exceeds the Conſequent by ſome Aliquot Parts more than one, whence the Name: […] Thus 9 is ſaid to be in a Superpartient Reaſon to 7, because 9 exceeds 7 by two 7th Parts.

    1734, Isaac Barrow, “Lecture XIX. Of the Species and Differences of Geometrical Reason.”, in John Kirkby, transl., The Usefulness of Mathematical Learning Explained and Demonstrated: Being Mathematical Lectures Read in the Publick Schools at the University of Cambridge. […], London: […] Stephen Austen, […], →OCLC, page 362

Origin

  1. Latinsuperpartiens
  2. Englishsuperpartient

Learned borrowing from Latin superpartiens, from super (“over”) + partiens, the past participle of partire (“to divide”).

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