Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Consisting of seven parts or members.
  • adjective Seven times as much in size, strength, number, or amount.
  • noun A sevenfold amount or number.
  • transitive & intransitive verb To multiply or be multiplied by seven.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To multiply by seven; increase sevenfold.
  • Sevenfold; seven times as much.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Seven times as much; multiplied by seven; sevenfold.
  • transitive verb To multiply by seven; to make sevenfold.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Seven times as much.
  • verb To multiply something by seven.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having seven units or components

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Late Latin septuplus, sevenfold : Latin septem, seven; see septm̥ in Indo-European roots + -plus, -fold; see pel- in Indo-European roots.]

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Examples

  • The name septuple, sometimes applied to this system, refers to the fact that the number of trees in each group-unit is seven.

    The Pecan and its Culture 1920

  • Searle and Vanderveken suggest, in light of these seven characteristics, that each illocutionary force may be defined as a septuple of values, each of which is a “setting” of a value within one of the seven characteristics.

    Saving Prostitutes in Sevilla 2009

  • Searle and Vanderveken go on to define illocutionary force in terms of seven features, claiming that every possible illocutionary force may be identified with a septuple of such values.

    Saving Prostitutes in Sevilla 2009

  • F2 are identical just in case they correspond to the same septuple.

    Saving Prostitutes in Sevilla 2009

  • To explicate this relation, Searle and Vanderveken define weak illocutionary commitment: S1 weakly illocutionarily implies S2 iff every performance of S1 commits an agent to meeting the conditions laid down in the septuple identical to S2 (1985, p. 24).

    Saving Prostitutes in Sevilla 2009

  • Oh, aye, it's going to get septuple BUTT ugly once the pardon pen can no longer protect anyone.

    Obama Camp Uses McClellan Book To Parry McCain's "Baghdad Stroll" Attack 2009

  • Come by at 1 PM if you want to hang out with a septuple-PhD.

    Triangle Meetup Today - The Panda's Thumb 2007

  • Come by at 1 PM if you want to hang out with a septuple-PhD.

    The Panda's Thumb: February 2007 Archives 2007

  • (Im so alone pity me Im a septuple minority waaaaah) 3.

    waterdiluted Diary Entry waterdiluted 2005

  • I can't believe I let myself buy into it for so long, but then again, I was living in the East Village paying double the rent I had in Los Angeles (and septuple what I'd paid in Chapel Hill) and I had a good health plan.

    4/22/02 I've been thinking a 2002

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