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equimultiple, a. and n.|iːkwɪˈmʌltɪp(ə)l|
[ad. mod.L. æquimultiplex, f. æqui- (see equi-) + multiplex multiple.]
†A. adj. That contains a number or quantity the same number of times that a third quantity contains a fourth. Obs.
1656Hobbes Six Lessons Wks. 1845 VII. 240 The antecedents are of their consequents..equimultiple.
B. n. One of a set of numbers or quantities which each contain some other number or quantity the same number of times. Chiefly pl.
[1570Billingsley Euclid ii. i. 63 Numbers that are equemultiplices to one and the selfe same number.] 1660Barrow Euclid v. iv, Take I and K the equimultiples of E and F. 1793T. Beddoes Math. Evid. 78 Take certain equimultiples of the first and third. 1817H. T. Colebrooke Algebra 162 The quotient will be an equimultiple of the dividend. 1878Gurney Crystallogr. 19 Magnitudes and their equimultiples have the same ratios to one another. |