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Complete Definition of "sesquiplicate"

English

Adjective
seqsquiplicate

  1. Magnified by one and one-half.

Related terms
sesquiplicate proportion
sesquiplicate ratio

See also
half again

Quotations
1729: And all astronomers agree that their periodic orbits are in the sesquiplicate proportion of the semi-diameters of their orbits; and so it manifestly appears from the following table. — Andrew Motte, translating Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica

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