What does "heptameride" mean?

A thing having seven parts or divisions.

What is a synonym for "heptameride"?

Common synonyms include: heptamer, savart.

Pronounced //hɛpˈtæməɹaɪd//.

//hɛpˈtæməɹaɪd// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Noun

1
A thing having seven parts or divisions.
"The Greeks had Seven Wise Men and Seven Sleepers, and the Pythagoreans saw magic in all the heptamerides."
2
A seven-unit oligomer. dated
"1930, British Chemical Abstracts: Part A, Pure Chemistry, page 317, ISSN 0365-9259. The residue remaining after the separation of the heptameride is colourless and very viscous; there appears little prospect of isolating higher polymerides …"
3
An interval of pitch equal to 1/7 of a meride, or 1/301 of an octave. obsolete
"Sauveur divided the heptameride into two demi-heptamerides. One demi-heptameride is 1/602 of an octave, with frequency ratio 1:2^(1/602) = 1.001 154 or 1.993 cents, very nearly 1/12 of a ditonic comma."

"The Greeks had Seven Wise Men and Seven Sleepers, and the Pythagoreans saw magic in all the heptamerides."

From French heptaméride, from Ancient Greek ἑπτά (heptá, “seven”) + French méride (compare meridian).

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