sedecuple

Sixteenfold.

Adjective

  1. Sixteenfold.
    • If for duple we had ſubſtituted triple, quadruple, quintuple, &c. the action would have come out noncuple, ſedecuple, 25ple. - 1744–9, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz [aut.] and James Jurin [tr.], “Commercium Literarum”...

    1. Sixteen times as great or as numerous.

    2. (of a ratio) Sixteen-to-one.

      • As an example, let us take a ratio which is two-thirds of a quadruple. Since 2 is the numerator, we shall have one-third of a quadruple ratio squared, namely a sedecuple ratio. - 1965, Edward Grant [translator],...

    3. Comprising sixteen repeated elements.

      • Gozzini and Iannuzzi (1960) proposed the use of sixteen microwave spectrometer systems connected in parallel and fed by the same source. It is interesting to note that this sedecuple arrangement did not burgeon forth...

Origin

First attested in 1744–1749; from the Latin sēdecuplus (“sixteenfold”); compare decuple.

Forms

sexdecuple

Verb

  1. To increase by a factor of sixteen.

Forms

sedecuples sedecupling sedecupled sexdecuple

Related

quindecuple septemdecuple