sextuple

[ seks-too-puhl, -tyoo-, -tuhp-uhl, seks-too-puhl, -tyoo- ]

adjective

1. consisting of six parts; sexpartite.
2. six times as great or as many.
3. Music. characterized by six beats or pulses to the measure:

   sextuple rhythm.

verb (used with or without object)

, sex·tu·pled, sex·tu·pling.

1. to make or become six times as great.

sextuple

/ ˈsɛkstjʊpəl /

noun

1. a quantity or number six times as great as another

adjective

1. six times as much or many; sixfold
2. consisting of six parts or members
3. (of musical time or rhythm) having six beats per bar

Word History and Origins

Origin of sextuple¹

1620–30; < Latin sext ( us ) sixth + -uple, as in duple, quadruple

Word History and Origins

Origin of sextuple¹

C17: Latin sextus sixth + -uple, as in quadruple

Example Sentences

Sextuple, in which there are six beats, the first and fourth being accented, the others not.

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These sextuple legs supported a hundred feet above their bases a huge and globular body formed of clusters of the spheres.

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I did not know before, that a half-mile of sextuple railway-tracks could be made such an adornment.

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A double sextuple press has a limit of 144,000 twelve-page papers an hour.

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The sextuple point is the point of intersection of the curves of six univariant systems, viz.

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