Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In the ratio of a number to a number less by several units.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Math.), obsolete Of or pertaining to a ratio when the excess of the greater term over the less is more than a unit, as that of 3 to 5, or 7 to 10.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective mathematics, archaic Being or relating to a ratio where the larger value exceeds the smaller by more than one unit, as in 3 to 5.

Etymologies

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Latin superpartiens; super over + partiens, p.pr. of partire to divide.

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