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
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Examples
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The name septuple, sometimes applied to this system, refers to the fact that the number of trees in each group-unit is seven.
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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.
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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.
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F2 are identical just in case they correspond to the same septuple.
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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).
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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
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Come by at 1 PM if you want to hang out with a septuple-PhD.
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Come by at 1 PM if you want to hang out with a septuple-PhD.
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(Im so alone pity me Im a septuple minority waaaaah) 3.
waterdiluted Diary Entry waterdiluted 2005
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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.
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