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  • verb rare Reduce by one sixth.
  • verb rare Reduce to one sixth.
  • adjective rare, physics sixfold degenerate
  • noun rare, spectroscopy A group of six peaks or lines

Etymologies

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Latin sextus ("sixth") + English -ate; compare quintate, septimate, and decimate

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