noncuple

== English == === Etymology === First attested in adjectival use in 1557, in nominal use in 1636, and in verbal use in 1674; from the post-Classical Latin noncuplus (“nine times larger than”), from the Classical Latin nōnus (“ninth”) + -cuplus; compare nonuple. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) enPR: nŏnʹkyo͞opl, IPA(key): /ˈnɒnkjuːpl/ === Adjective === noncuple (not comparable) Ninefold. (of a ratio or proportion) Nine-to-one; (in 1729 quot.) imprecisely, with any number of aliquot parts over. 1557, Robert Record, Whetstone of Witte, sig. Eiii 36 vnto 4 is a noncuple proportion. ante 1690, Samuel Jeake, Λογιστικη Λογια, or Arithmetick Surveighed and Reviewed (second edition, published in 1696), page 182 Both triples added together […] make the proportion or amounting Ratio Noncuple, or ninefold. (construed with to) Nine times greater or larger than. 1570, Henry Billingsley tr. Comte de Candale in The Elements of Geometrie of the Most Ancient Philosopher Euclide of Megara, f. 453 To proue that a trilater equilater Pyramis, is noncuple to a cube inscribed in it. Nine times as great or as numerous. 1744–1749, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (author) and James Jurin (translator), “Commercium Literarum” (1696) in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (1665–1800) IX (1809), page 218 If for duple we had substituted triple, quadruple, quintuple, &c. the action would have come out noncuple, sedecuple, 25ple. 1797, Colin Macfarquhar and George Gleig (editors), Encyclopædia Britannica (3rd edition) XV (Plant–Rana), page 544, “Projectiles” As the height neceſſary for acquiring any velocity increaſes or diminiſhes in the duplicate proportion of that velocity, it is evident that all the ranges with given elevations will vary in the ſame proportion, a double velocity giving a quadruple range, a triple velocity giving a noncuple range, &c. 1803, Jacques Ozanam (author), Jean-Étienne Montucla [Fr. ed.], and Charles Hutton (translator), Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy II, pages 395–396 The velocity of the vibrations performed by a string […] is as the square roots of the stretching weights: […] a noncuple weight will produce vibrations of triple velocity, or a triple number in the same time. (mathematics, rare) Divided into nine equal segments. (rare, of a series of numbers) Proceeding by powers of nine with exponents in integral succession (i.e.: 91, 92, 93, 94, ... = 9, 81, 729, 6,561, ...). === Noun === noncuple (plural not attested) (rare, music) Nine beats per measure. The product of multiplying a given number by nine. 1713, Edmund Wingate (author), John Kersey and George Shelley (editors), Mr. Wingate’s Arithmetick (13th ed.), page 45 Again adding 2124 (the triple of the Diviſor) to the Diviſor 708, I find 2832 for the quadruple of the Diviſor, which quadruple I ſubſcribe under the Triple, and proceeding in like manner, at laſt the Table is finiſh’d, which readily ſhews the Diviſor, with the duple, triple, quadruple, quintuple, ſextuple, ſeptuple, octuple, and noncuple of the Diviſor. (rare, of dice) A throw in which all of nine dice show the same value (an event whose probability of occurring is 1,679,616 to 1). === Verb === noncuple (transitive, rare) Make nine times greater; multiply by nine. ==== Derived terms ==== noncuplication (obsolete, rare) === References === “†Noncuple” listed on page 193 of volume VI, part II (M–N), § ii (N) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [1st ed., 1908] †Noncuple, a. and sb. Obs. [f. L. nōnus ninth + -uple as in quadruple, with c inserted on the analogy of decuple.] A. adj. Ninefold. Noncuple to: nine times as great as. B. sb. A quantity nine times as great as another. [¶] 1557 Recorde Whetst. E iij b, 36 vnto 4 is a noncuple proportion. 1570 Billingsley Euclid xvi. prop. 30. 454 To proue that a trilater equilater Pyramis, is noncuple to a cube inscribed in it. 1674 Petty Disc. Dupl. Proportion 22 A quadruple Sail is requisite to double Swiftness, and noncuple to treble. 1674 Jeake Arith. (1696) 182 Both triples added together..make the proportion or amounting Ratio Noncuple, or ninefold. 1690 Leybourn Curs. Math. 181 And so on to the ninth and last [row], in which you shall find the noncuple of the number given. [¶] Hence †Noncuplica·tion, multiplication by nine. [¶] 1674 Jeake Arith. (1696) 25 Noncuplication, or to multiply by 9. “†noncuple, a. and n.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd edition, 1989] “† noncuple, adj. and n.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [3rd edition, December 2003]