单词 | sextupling |
释义 | sextuplingn. The action or an act of multiplying by six. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > increasing in specific proportion doubling1398 redoubling?1473 quadrupling1573 duplication1590 tripling1603 redoublement1611 sextupling1656 millecuplation1678 trebling1694 quadruplication1836 quintupling1862 sextuplication1935 the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > six > [noun] > multiplication by six sextupling1656 sextuplicationa1690 1656 T. Hobbes Six Lessons iii. 22 in Elements Philos. Your instance therefore of six, three, one, is here impertinent, there being in them no doubling, no tripling, nor sextupling of Proportions, but of numbers. 1853 W. R. Hamilton Lect. Quaternions ii. 53 Two successive acts, of negatively doubling and negatively tripling, compound themselves into the single act of positively sextupling. 1988 D. J. Mrozek U.S. Air Force after Vietnam iii. 48 The methodology for achieving the high goals of the new curriculum in strategy included..a sextupling of the total writing requirement. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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