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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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of sextuple1

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

Origin of sextuple1

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

Since then he’s been kept alive by internal devices, stents, angioplasty surgery, a sextuple bypass surgery and multiple ablation procedures.

The project was delayed again when, taking his doctors’ advice, he underwent sextuple heart bypass surgery in 1995.

“We expect to find more quadruple systems, and why not quintuple or sextuple.”

Their efforts confirmed that TIC 168789840 was a sextuple system and helped clarify its stars’ characteristics, orbital dimensions and paths.

His sextuple bogey is the worst score on the first hole at the Masters, beating the old mark by two strokes.

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