单词 | septuple |
释义 | septupleadj.n. A. adj. 1. Seven times as many or as much, sevenfold. Also: consisting of seven parts or things. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > seven > [adjective] > sevenfold sevenfoldOE seven-doublea1586 sevenfolded1590 septuary1604 septuple1615 septuplicate1632 1615 T. Adams Blacke Devill 60 It doth so prouoke and distemper Satan to bee cast out, that he..rampires his recouer'd Fortresse with a septuple guard. 1659 B. Jones Herm'ælogium Pref. sig. A4v How, why and when graduated to that septuple excellency we now find it in. 1791 Morning Post 4 Jan. By a sensuous sweet suffusion on the visage discover septuple delight. 1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 456 The ‘quadruple’ alliance will very soon be..a ‘septuple’ one. 1882 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. I. 49 The septuple fulness of the Holy Spirit. 1910 S. Fortier Irrigation of Orchards (U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 404) 11 The..septuple method of planting..should be adopted. 2016 Times (Nexis) 18 July 69 Thomas Pieters, of Belgium, snapped his club en route to a septuple bogey. 2. Music. Having seven beats in a bar. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [adjective] > specific rhythm triplatec1430 triplar?a1505 sextuple1738 simple1740 septuple1889 1889 G. Grove Dict. Music IV. 120/1 There seems no possible reason why a Composer, visited by an inspiration in that direction, should not write an Air in Septuple Time, with seven beats in a bar. 1954 Music & Lett. 35 259 Experiments in quintuple, septuple and even rarer rhythms. 2007 J. Rushton in B. L. Kelly & K. Murphy Berlioz & Debussy: Sources, Contexts & Legacies iii. 41 The ‘cabbalistic dance’ of the soothsayers is one of Berlioz's most exotic pieces, in septuple metre, based on an incessant rhythmic ostinato. B. n. A number or amount that has been multiplied by seven; a quantity seven times as great as another. Also: a set of seven things or parts; a group of seven. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > [noun] > multiplication > multiple tenth1543 ternary1557 sexagene1570 septuple1632 sextuple1657 quintary1729 1632 W. Forster tr. W. Oughtred Circles of Proportion i. iv. 17 Then setting the Antecedent arme of the Index to that septuple.., open the consequent arme unto 1. 1692 Smith's Sea-mans Gram. (new ed.) ii. xv. 123 The Cube of The Septuple thereof is 1·913. 1865 Orig. Secession Mag. Jan. 29 How can this be reconciled with the directions given to Noah to take into the ark pairs and septuples of every living thing of all flesh? 1998 F. W. Iyebote Nothing like it Before xii. 81 England and Germany had already confirmed their candidacies for the [World Cup] bid, but no less than a septuple of bids were still expected from at least three continents. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). septuplev. transitive. To multiply by seven; to make seven times as great or as many. In later use also intransitive: to increase sevenfold. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > seven > [verb (transitive)] > multiply by seven sevenfolda1425 septuple1615 1615 T. Adams Blacke Devill 2 He that is quit of so bad a Guest, shall septuple his owne woes by his re-entertainment. 1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (ii. 4) 507 That furnace whose heate was septupled. 1833 J. F. W. Herschel Astronomy viii. 278 Let any one figure to himself the condition of our globe, were the sun to be septupled. 1969 S. Hepburn Wingless Victory i. 8 As a result the Festival population of Bénodet more than septuples to about 6,000. 2013 Deseret Morning News (Salt Lake City) (Nexis) 22 Sept. Instead unemployment septupled to more than 35 percent. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1615v.1615 |
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