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Definition of Sextuplets
1. sextuplet [n] - See also: sextuplet
Literary usage of Sextuplets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mathematical Questions and Solutions by W. J. C. Miller (1875)
"Then, if the vowel sextuplets (Order unnoted, and the fa) Are just some previous
thirty sets And till your list is mended Of six, you fail to please. ..."
2. Mathematical Questions and Solutions, from the "Educational Times": With by W. J. C. Miller (1875)
"Then, if the vowel sextuplets (Order unnoted, and the fa) Are just some previous
thirty sets And till your list is mended Of six, you fail to please. ..."
3. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1908)
"These values are fairly comparable; and the ratio of the constituents of the
sextuplets appears to be 1:3:4, whilst the values of the outside constituents ..."
4. The Influence of a Magnetic Field Upon the Spark Spectra of Iron and Titanium by Arthur Scott King (1912)
"type, a great number of lines being classed as probable sextuplets which show as
diffuse triplets with this field. A field of considerably greater intensity ..."
5. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1890)
"There is no recorded case of sextuplets in Ireland. ... Quadruplets occur about
once in a million confinements, and sextuplets once in one hundred million. ..."
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