Lexicographical Neighbors of Octupling
Literary usage of Octupling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1841)
"... and an acclivity of 1 in 180 doubling, 1 in 90 quadrupling, and 1 in 4*5
octupling only the tractive force, without in any case requiring more than the ..."
2. The Cotton Manufacture of Great Britain Systematically Investigated by Andrew Ure (1836)
"... then to extend them into regular ribands, to elongate these ribands by many
successive draughts, doubling, quadrupling, or even octupling them meanwhile ..."
3. Ures̓ Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Containing a Clear by Andrew Ure (1860)
"... then to extend them into regular ribands, to elongate these ribands by many
successive draughts, doubling, quadrupling, or even octupling them meanwhile ..."
4. Report by British Association for the Advancement of Science (1841)
"... 1 in 90 quadrupling, and 1 in 45 octupling only the tractive force, without
in any case requiring more than the seventeen-horse power to turn the wheels ..."
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