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
Hamblin Hall stands at the end of the long green "Campus" with its sextuple line of elms—the boast and the singularity of Wentworth.
From The Hermit and the Wild Woman by Wharton, Edith
“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
The number of cases of absence without leave, drunkenness, disorder, and disrespect to non-commissioned officers, etc., had sextupled.
From A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade by King, Charles
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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