noncuple

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UK /ˈnɒnkjuːpl/

词形变化

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释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Nine beats per measure.

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  2. 2.

    The product of multiplying a given number by nine.

    Again adding 2124 (the triple of the Diviſor) to the Diviſor 708, I find 2832 for the quadruple of the Diviſor, which quadruple I ſubſcribe under the Triple, and proceeding in like manner, at laſt the Table is finiſh’d, which readily ſhews the Diviſor, with the duple, triple, quadruple, quintuple, ſextuple, ſeptuple, octuple, and noncuple of the Diviſor.

  3. 3.

    A throw in which all of nine dice show the same value (an event whose probability of occurring is 1,679,616 to 1).

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v.
  1. 1.

    Make nine times greater; multiply by nine.

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adj.
  1. 1.

    Ninefold.

    Nine-to-one; (in 1729 quot.) imprecisely, with any number of aliquot parts over.

    1557, Robert Record, Whetstone of Witte, sig. Eiii 36 vnto 4 is a noncuple proportion.

    Both triples added together […] make the proportion or amounting Ratio Noncuple, or ninefold.

  2. 2.

    Ninefold.

    Nine times greater or larger than.

    To proue that a trilater equilater Pyramis, is noncuple to a cube inscribed in it.

  3. 3.

    Ninefold.

    Nine times as great or as numerous.

    If for duple we had substituted triple, quadruple, quintuple, &c. the action would have come out noncuple, sedecuple, 25ple.

    1797, Colin Macfarquhar and George Gleig (editors), Encyclopædia Britannica (3rd edition) XV (Plant–Rana), page 544, “Projectiles” As the height neceſſary for acquiring any velocity increaſes or diminiſhes in the duplicate proportion of that velocity, it is evident that all the ranges with given elevations will vary in the ſame proportion, a double velocity giving a quadruple range, a triple velocity giving a noncuple range, &c.

    The velocity of the vibrations performed by a string […] is as the square roots of the stretching weights: […] a noncuple weight will produce vibrations of triple velocity, or a triple number in the same time.

  4. 4.

    Ninefold.

    Divided into nine equal segments.

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  5. 5.

    Ninefold.

    Proceeding by powers of nine with exponents in integral succession (i.e.: 9¹, 9², 9³, 9⁴, ... = 9, 81, 729, 6,561, ...).

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词源

First attested in adjectival use in 1557, in nominal use in 1636, and in verbal use in 1674; from the post-Classical Latin noncuplus (“nine times larger than”), from the Classical Latin nōnus (“ninth”) + -cuplus; compare nonuple.

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