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Definition of Octuples
1. octuple [v] - See also: octuple
Lexicographical Neighbors of Octuples
Literary usage of Octuples
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Credentials of Science the Warrant of Faith by Josiah Parsons Cooke (1893)
"... the value of the successive places in the octuple enumeration increase by
powers of eight Hence, the value of 234 in octuples would be found in decimals ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... as the pressroom was lofty, rising above the street level, and did on the same
framework build another quadruple press on top of each of the octuples. ..."
3. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"... as the press room was lofty, rising above the street level, and did on the
same framework build another quadruple press on top of each of the octuples. ..."
4. Making a Newspaper by John La Porte Given (1907)
"in operation are double-octuples. Seven of these machines were not long ago made
in New York and delivered to a London newspaper. ..."
5. The Detroit News: Eighteen Hundred and Seventy-three, Nineteen Hundred and by Lee A. White (1918)
"They would operate as eight sextuples on a twenty-four-page paper, with an output
of 288000 an hour; and as six octuples on a thirty-two-page edition, ..."
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