sextuple









sextuple


adjective

  1. consisting of six parts; sexpartite.
  2. six times as great or as many.
  3. Music. characterized by six beats or pulses to the measure: sextuple rhythm.

verb (used with or without object), sex·tu·pled, sex·tu·pling.

  1. to make or become six times as great.

noun

  1. a quantity or number six times as great as another

adjective

  1. six times as much or many; sixfold
  2. consisting of six parts or members
  3. (of musical time or rhythm) having six beats per bar

adj.“sixfold,” 1620s, from Latin sextus “sixth” (from sex “six;” see six) + -plus “more” (see plus).

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