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Webster 1913 Edition
Sesquiplicate
Ses-quip′li-cate
,Adj.
[
Sesqui-
+ plicate
.] (Math.)
Subduplicate of the triplicate; – a term applied to ratios; thus, a and a´ are in the sesquiplicate ratio of b and b´, when a is to a´ as the square root of the cube of b</> is to the square root of the cube of b´, or
a:a´::√b
. 3
:√b´3
The periodic times of the planets are in the
sesquiplicate
ratio of their mean distances. Sir I. Newton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Sesquiplicate
SESQUIP'LICATE
,Adj.
Definition 2024
sesquiplicate
sesquiplicate
English
Adjective
sesquiplicate (not comparable)
- Magnified by one and one-half; in a ratio of three to two.
Related terms
- sesquiplicate proportion
- sesquiplicate ratio
Coordinate terms
- duplicate – two times
- triplicate – three times
See also
- half again
Quotations
1729: And all astronomers agree that their periodic orbits are in the sesquiplicate proportion of the semi-diameters of their orbits; and so it manifestly appears from the following table. — Andrew Motte, translating Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica