Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One of six offspring born in a single birth.
- noun A group or combination of six associated by common properties or behavior.
- noun Music A group of six notes having the time value of four notes of the same kind.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A union or combination of six things: as, a sextuplet of elliptic springs.
- noun In music, a group of six notes to be performed in the time of four; a double triplet. Also sestole, sextole, sextolet, ete. Compare triplet, decimole, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A group of six objects.
- noun One of a group of
six persons or animalsborn from thesame mother during the samebirth . - noun music A group of six notes played in the time of four.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Respiratory issues, cerebral palsy (two of one recent sextuplet birth ended up with cerebral palsy), birth defects, sensory disorders and death.
Baby Boom 2009
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She famously received a free tummy tuck on television, as seen in the video below, because of the tremendous amount of extra skin her sextuplet pregnancy left her with scroll for photos.
Kate Gosselin's Bikini Body: 'I've Worked Really Hard!' (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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She famously received a free tummy tuck on television, as seen in the video below, because of the tremendous amount of extra skin her sextuplet pregnancy left her with (scroll for photos).
Kate Gosselin's Bikini Body: 'I've Worked Really Hard!' (PHOTOS) 2010
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The children are the first surviving sextuplet birth in Arizona, and all but one weighed less than 3 pounds.
'Raising Sextuplets' Dad Bryan Masche Arrested For Domestic Violence 2010
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She famously received a free tummy tuck on television, as seen in the video below, because of the tremendous amount of extra skin her sextuplet pregnancy left her with (scroll for photos).
Kate Gosselin's Bikini Body: 'I've Worked Really Hard!' (PHOTOS) 2010
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Lesson learned: You CAN get your pre-sextuplet body back.
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The Pennsylvania brood known as the Gosselin Gang (a set of twin girls along with their sextuplet siblings) has made millions, but the kids will likely never live down their public exposure on The Learning Channel series that bears their name.
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She famously received a free tummy tuck on television, as seen in the video below, because of the tremendous amount of extra skin her sextuplet pregnancy left her with (scroll for photos).
Kate Gosselin's Bikini Body: 'I've Worked Really Hard!' (PHOTOS) 2010
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Lesson learned: You CAN get your pre-sextuplet body back.
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She famously received a free tummy tuck on television, as seen in the video below, because of the tremendous amount of extra skin her sextuplet pregnancy left her with (scroll for photos).
Kate Gosselin's Bikini Body: 'I've Worked Really Hard!' (PHOTOS) 2010
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