English Dictionary

sedecuple

/ˌsiːdɛˈkjuːp(ə)l/

adj

Sixteen times as great or as numerous. / (of a ratio) Sixteen-to-one. / Comprising sixteen repeated elements.

The population of the city has sedecupled in the last decade.

意味（1）

Sixteen times as great or as numerous.

If for duple we had ſubſtituted triple, quadruple, quintuple, &c. the action would have come out noncuple, ſedecuple, 25ple.

意味（2）

(of a ratio) Sixteen-to-one.

As an example, let us take a ratio which is two-thirds of a quadruple. Since 2 is the numerator, we shall have one-third of a quadruple ratio squared, namely a sedecuple ratio.

意味（3）

Comprising sixteen repeated elements.

Gozzini and Iannuzzi (1960) proposed the use of sixteen microwave spectrometer systems connected in parallel and fed by the same source. It is interesting to note that this sedecuple arrangement did not burgeon forth from an opulent American laboratory.