Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To multiply or be multiplied by six.
- adj. Consisting of six parts or members.
- adj. Six times as much in size, strength, number, or amount.
- adj. Music Having six beats to the measure.
- n. A sixfold amount or number.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Sixfold; six times as much.
- To multiply by six.
- n. Same as sextuple press.
Wiktionary
- n. a sixfold amount
- adj. Having six parts
- adj. Being six times as great
- adj. music Having six beats to the bar
- v. To make, or to become, six times as much (or as many)
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Six times as much; sixfold.
- adj. (Mus.) Divisible by six; having six beats.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having six units or components
Etymologies
- Formed (in imitation of quadruple) from Latin sextus sixth: compare French sextuple. (Wiktionary)
- Medieval Latin sextuplus, sixfold : Latin sextus, sixth; see sextile + -plus, -fold. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Prior to 2008/2009 season, the sextuple was a concept that existed only on”
“In the emergency room at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif., doctors determined he needed an immediate, nine-hour sextuple coronary bypass surgery to install artery-opening stents.”
“Our incidents were all double or sextuple attended in body armour.”
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“When he stepped on to the 18th tee he held an eight-shot advantage over Day, knowing that anything less than a sextuple bogey 10 would be enough to win.”
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“Führer: Are these sextuple barrels or normal barrels?”
“But nothing, and I mean nothing compares to the kind of pay raises that bureaucrats and politicians bestow on themselves. 2-3% inflationary increases are small potatoes for the “civil servants” toiling away on their meagre sextuple salaries.”
“Both the online left and the online right gather in Austin, though the size and profile of Netroots Nation demonstrates the distance that conservatives still have to travel on the Internet; a congressman takes up a new post as Flip-equipped correspondent for the effort to move elections to a more sensible day; a candidate's web comic helps to sextuple the existing fundraising record in his race; and much, much more.”
“Their sextuple-platinum first album, "Wide Open Spaces," outsold any record, ever, by a country-music group; with their new CD, "Fly," the nation's best-selling album for two weeks, they've become the biggest country crossover since Garth Brooks.”
“I double washed my hair and applied conditioner twice, grateful for the six showerheads so I could fully desalt in sextuple time.”
“If I had half the wit of Palladian, I'd sextuple my sense of humor.”
"How is Senator Obama not being a Marxist if he intends to spread the wealth around?"
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