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SESQUIALTERAL Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of SESQUIALTERAL is one and a half times as great as another : having the ratio of one and a half to one.
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sesquialteral - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
(botany, archaic) Having full florets accompanied by lesser ones. (botany, archaic) Having half as many stamens as petals. (entomology, archaic) ...
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sesquialteral, adj. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English ...
sesquialteral is a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin sesquialter, ‑al suffix1. See etymology. Nearby entries. sesban, n ...
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sesquialteral
sesquialteral, a. (sɛskwɪˈæltərəl) [f. L. sesquialter: see prec.] = sesquialter 1.1603 Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1358 The proportion..of Diapente, [is] Hemolios or Sesquialterall, that is to say, the whole and halfe as much more. 1692 Bentley Boyle Lect. viii. (1693) 10 As the six Primary Planets revo...
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Sesquialteral Definition & Meaning | YourDictionary
Sesquialteral Definition · Sesquialteral Sentence Examples · Find Similar Words · Words Near Sesquialteral in the Dictionary. sesban · seseli · sesh · sesotho ...
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SESQUIALTERA Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
1. archaic : hemiola sense 2 2. Sesquialtera plural Sesquialteras : an organ mutation flue stop reinforcing the fifth and third above the fundamental.
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sesquialterous
sesquialterous, a. Ent. (sɛskwɪˈæltərəs) [Formed as prec. + -ous.] See quots. and cf. sesquialteral b.1826 Kirby & Sp. Entomol. xlvi. IV. 288 Sesquialterous Ocellus (Ocellus sesquialterus). An ocellus with a smaller near it, called also Sesquiocellus. Ibid. 289 Sesquialterous Fascia (Fascia sesquial...
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Sesquialteral ratio - The Free Dictionary
the ratio of one and a half to one; thus, 9 and 6 are in a sesquialteral ratio. See also: Sesquialteral. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, ...
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sesquialter - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
(music, obsolete) Synonym of sesquialteral, of or relating to 1½ notes. Noun. edit. sesquialter (plural sesquialters). (music, obsolete) Synonym of ...
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Sesquialteral: definition, transcription - English dictionary
Definition of the English word 'sesquialteral', transcription.
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sesquialteral - Grandiloquent dictionary
Having a ratrio of one to one and a half.
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sesquialtera, adj. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English ...
What does the adjective sesquialtera mean? There are three meanings listed in OED's entry for the adjective sesquialtera, two of which are labelled obsolete.
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sesquiduple
sesquiduple, a. (ˈsɛskwɪˌdjuːp(ə)l) [f. sesqui- + duple, to express the meaning ‘two and a half’ (on a false analogy), after sesquialteral.] Involving a ratio of 2½ to 1. So sesquiˈduplicate a.1775 Ash, Sesquiduplicate, belonging to the ratio of five to two. 1842 Brande Dict. Sci., etc. s.v. Sesqui,...
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sesquialtera
‖ sesquialtera, a. (n.) (sɛskwɪˈæltərə) [L., fem. (sc. ratio) of sesquialter (see prec.).] † 1. = sesquialter a. Also as n., a sesquialteral proportion. Obs.1609 J. Dowland Ornith. Microl. 62 Now as of Duples you make Sesquialteraes, so of Triples you may make sesquitertiaes. 1650 Bulwer Anthropomet...
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sesqui-
sesqui- (ˈsɛskwɪ) a Latin prefix [L. sesqui-, also sesque-, contraction of *sēmis-que a half in addition; cf. sestertius:—*sēmis-tertius], expressing a superparticular ratio. 1. a. With designations of measure or amount, denoting one-and-a-half times the unit; as sesquihōra an hour and a half; sesqu...
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