English Dictionary

noncuple

/ˈnɒnkjuːpl/

adj

(of a ratio or proportion) Nine-to-one; (in 1729 quot.) imprecisely, with any number of aliquot parts over. / (construed with to) Nine times greater or larger than. / Nine times as great or as numerous.

The noncuple ratio of boys to girls in the class is surprising.

意味（1）

(of a ratio or proportion) Nine-to-one; (in 1729 quot.) imprecisely, with any number of aliquot parts over.

36 vnto 4 is a noncuple proportion.

意味（2）

(construed with to) Nine times greater or larger than.

To proue that a trilater equilater Pyramis, is noncuple to a cube inscribed in it.

意味（3）

Nine 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（4）

(mathematics, rare) Divided into nine equal segments.

In the following odd multiples above the ſeptuple arc, the mean arc may be greater than three quadrants: Thus, for inſtance, in the caſe of the noncuple arc, in which the three equidifferent arcs are the quintuple, ſeptuple, and noncuple arcs, ‛tis evident the greateſt magnitude of the ſeptuple, or mean, arc, or that which it has when the noncuple arc is equal to a whole circle, is ⁷⁄₉, or ²⁸⁄₃₆, of the whole circumference, which is greater than ²⁷⁄₃₆ or ¾ of the whole circumference, or three quadrants; and ſince this is true in the noncuple arc, it follows a fortiori that it will be true in all higher multiples.

意味（5）

(rare, of a series of numbers) Proceeding by powers of nine with exponents in integral succession (i.e.: 9¹, 9², 9³, 9⁴, ... = 9, 81, 729, 6,561, ...).

In the noncuple series, each term exceeds the octuple of the sum of its parts, by unity.