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1795 Doctr. Permutations & Combinations 73 The sixth vertical column..represents the numbers of sextuplets, or senions, of the letters.

1852 A. De Morgan Let. 12 Feb. in R. P. Graves Life Sir W. R. Hamilton (1889) III. 338 We have then an harmonic quadruplet and sextuplet, and we might have octuplets, &c.

1873 E. Eggleston Myst. Metropolisville xiv. 123 But his feelings were too deep for his rhymes... He must have burned up hundreds of couplets, triplets, and sextuplets in the next fortnight.

1957 Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 85 248 That quasigroups come in sextuplets was observed most recently by D. A. Norton and the author.

2007 Nucl. Instruments & Methods Physics Res. B. 260 373/1 The sextuplet can be mounted as two symmetrical triplets.

1853 A. H. Wehrhan tr. A. B. Marx Universal School Music 114 Those [rhythmical forms which may be derived in two ways] most frequently occurring are the Sextuplet (group of six). If we consider it as a double triplet, its first sound receives the strongest accent..but it we look upon it as a subdivision of the notes of a single triplet, we must accentuate the first, third, and fifth notes.

1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 395/1 Sextolet, or Sextuplet, a double triplet, six notes to be performed in the time of four.

1951 M. L. Wolf Dict. Arts 634 Sextuplet—In music, any group of six equal notes required to be played or sung in the time normally allotted to four of the same value.

2005 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 2 Sept. b4/1 Zhu..had to hang on for dear life to keep up with Hahn's sextuplet runs during the opening movement.

1900 Science 24 Aug. 296/1 The most refrangible line in each group becomes a sharp triplet with the value 10..for the ratio λ²/Δλ, the middle line a sextuplet with the value 11.5.

1915 G. E. Hale Ten Years' Work Mountain Observatory 29 We place our iron arc or spark between the poles of a powerful magnet..and photograph its spectrum. The lines behave in the most diverse way, some splitting into triplets, others into quadruplets, quintuplets, sextuplets, etc.

1957 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 241 129 Under the influence of V_P a level possessing a J of ¹⁵/ ₂ breaks up into two sextuplets..and a quadruplet.

2005 Jrnl. Appl. Physics 98 033905-4/1 The experimental spectra have been well reproduced.., one sextuplet corresponding to metallic Fe, and two sextuplets corresponding to the Fe cations.