sextuple
Americanadjective
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consisting of six parts; sexpartite.
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six times as great or as many.
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Music. characterized by six beats or pulses to the measure.
sextuple rhythm.
verb (used with or without object)
noun
adjective
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six times as much or many; sixfold
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consisting of six parts or members
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(of musical time or rhythm) having six beats per bar
Etymology
Origin of sextuple
1620–30; < Latin sext ( us ) sixth + -uple, as in duple, quadruple
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Data centers in Indonesia earned $374 million in revenue last year, said research firm Mordor Intelligence, a figure estimated to sextuple by 2030.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2025
Since then he’s been kept alive by internal devices, stents, angioplasty surgery, a sextuple bypass surgery and multiple ablation procedures.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 27, 2023
His sextuple bogey is the worst score on the first hole at the Masters, beating the old mark by two strokes.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 6, 2020
In June, Mr. Michals had a sextuple bypass.
From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2014
I did not know before, that a half-mile of sextuple railway-tracks could be made such an adornment.
From A Tramp Abroad — Volume 01 by Twain, Mark
“We’ve sextupled our workforce,” she says of Particle6, which now has more than 30 employees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
At Sotheby’s, the banana returned with an estimate between $1 million and $1.5 million, but the final price with fees sextupled its low estimate.
From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2024
Mexico's foreign debt sextupled and the peso's value almost halved during Echeverria's term in office, leading to a currency devaluation shortly before his term expired.
From Reuters ● Jul. 9, 2022
Share prices have sextupled since its initial public offering in late 2015, hitting a high of $74 in May.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 19, 2019
I said then that many of us would see the population of Brooklyn quadrupled and sextupled.
From T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)
Online fashion market Tradesy saw a sextupling of average prices, a doubling of supply and an 800 percent increase in purchases for Kate Spade handbags on the day of her death.
From Reuters ● Jun. 9, 2018
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