adjective
- consisting of six parts; sexpartite.
- six times as great or as many.
- Music. characterized by six beats or pulses to the measure: sextuple rhythm.
verb (used with or without object), sex·tu·pled, sex·tu·pling.
- to make or become six times as great.
noun
- a quantity or number six times as great as another
adjective
- six times as much or many; sixfold
- consisting of six parts or members
- (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).