sedecuple

== English == === Alternative forms === sexdecuple === Etymology === First attested in 1744–1749; from the Latin sēdecuplus (“sixteenfold”); compare decuple. === Pronunciation === (UK) enPR: sē'dĕkyo͞oʹp(ə)l, IPA(key): /ˌsiːdɛˈkjuːp(ə)l/ === Adjective === sedecuple (not comparable) (rare) Sixteenfold. Sixteen times as great or as numerous. 1744–9, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz [aut.] and James Jurin [tr.], “Commercium Literarum” (1696) in Philoſophical Tranſactions of the Royal Society X (1756), page 184: (of a ratio) Sixteen-to-one. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:sedecuple. Comprising sixteen repeated elements. === Verb === sedecuple (third-person singular simple present sedecuples, present participle sedecupling, simple past and past participle sedecupled) (rare, transitive or intransitive) To increase by a factor of sixteen. === Related terms === quindecuple septemdecuple