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Double triple
Answer for the clue "Double triple ", 8 letters:
sextuple
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Word definitions for sextuple in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"sixfold," 1620s, from Latin sextus "sixth" (from sex "six;" see six ) + -plus "more" (see plus ).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sextuple \Sex"tu*ple\, a. [Formed (in imitation of quadruple) fr. L. sextus sixth: cf. F. sextuple.] Six times as much; sixfold. (Mus.) Divisible by six; having six beats; as, sixtuple measure.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 Having six parts 2 Being six times as great 3 (context music English) Having six beats to the bar n. a sixfold amount v To make, or to become, six times as much (or as many)
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. having six units or components [syn: sixfold ]
Usage examples of sextuple.
He may receive the sextuple super-gamete from the tkan and transmit the original single gamete to the guur, he may be between the flin and blap, the blap and srob, whatever is required.
Arcturus: of the precession of equinoxes: of Orion with belt and sextuple sun theta and nebula in which 100 of our solar systems could be contained: of moribund and of nascent new stars such as Nova in 1901: of our system plunging towards the constellation of Hercules: of the parallax or parallactic drift of socalled fixed stars, in reality evermoving wanderers from immeasurably remote eons to infinitely remote futures in comparison with which the years, threescore and ten, of allotted human life formed a parenthesis of infinitesimal brevity.