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Definition of Nonuple
1. Adjective. Having nine units or components.
Definition of Nonuple
1. a number nine times as great as another [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonuple
Literary usage of Nonuple
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A French-English dictionary for chemists by Austin McDowell Patterson (1921)
"... m. nonuple effect (apparatus). non-usage, m. nonusage. non-valeur, /. waste,
loss, deficiency; deduction; bad debt; unproductive property. ..."
2. A French grammar for schools and colleges: together with a brief reader and by William Henry Fraser, John Squair (1901)
"... quadruple. nonuple, ninefold. quintuple, fivefold. décuple, tenfold. sextuple,
sixfold. centuple, hundredfold. As nouns, le double, the double, etc. ..."
3. The Monadology and Other Philosophical Writings by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Robert Latta (1898)
"... or triple effect in one and the same time, receives a quadruple or nonuple
action. Thus actions are proportional to the squares of the velocities. ..."
4. A System of Mechanical Philosophy by John Robison, James Watt (1822)
"The force necessary for a quadruple condensation would be eight times greater,
and for a nonuple condensation the force must be 27 times greater. ..."
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