Noncuple
adj, noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Nine beats per measure. no-plural, rare
"Ðe rigt hand diſcanteŧ in Noncuple uppon đe plain Triple of đe left hand."
- 2 The product of multiplying a given number by nine. no-plural
"And so on to the ninth and last [row], in which you shall find the noncuple of the number given."
- 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). no-plural, rare
"For nine dice, to have 1 noncuple [... there is one] determinate throw [... and six] indeterminate throws."
- 1 Make nine times greater; multiply by nine. rare, transitive
"If you shall quadruple the same weight it will draw down double the first distance, and noncuple will draw it down treble, etc."
- 1 Ninefold.; Nine-to-one; (in 1729 quot.) imprecisely, with any number of aliquot parts over. not-comparable
"1557, Robert Record, Whetstone of Witte, sig. Eiii 36 vnto 4 is a noncuple proportion."
- 2 Ninefold.; Nine times greater or larger than. not-comparable
"To proue that a trilater equilater Pyramis, is noncuple to a cube inscribed in it."
- 3 Ninefold.; Nine times as great or as numerous. not-comparable
"If for duple we had substituted triple, quadruple, quintuple, &c. the action would have come out noncuple, sedecuple, 25ple."
- 4 Ninefold.; Divided into nine equal segments. not-comparable, rare
"In the following odd multiples above the ſeptuple arc, the mean arc may be greater than three quadrants: Thus, for inſtance, in the caſe of the noncuple arc, in which the three equidifferent arcs are the quintuple, ſeptuple, and noncuple arcs, ‛tis evident the greateſt magnitude of the ſeptuple, or mean, arc, or that which it has when the noncuple arc is equal to a whole circle, is ⁷⁄₉, or ²⁸⁄₃₆, of the whole circumference, which is greater than ²⁷⁄₃₆ or ¾ of the whole circumference, or three quadrants; and ſince this is true in the noncuple arc, it follows a fortiori that it will be true in all higher multiples."
- 5 Ninefold.; Proceeding by powers of nine with exponents in integral succession (i.e.: 9¹, 9², 9³, 9⁴, ... = 9, 81, 729, 6,561, ...). not-comparable, rare
"In the noncuple series, each term exceeds the octuple of the sum of its parts, by unity."
Example
More examples"1557, Robert Record, Whetstone of Witte, sig. Eiii 36 vnto 4 is a noncuple proportion."
Etymology
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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