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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[Formed (in imitation of

quadruple

) fr. L.

sextus

sixth: cf. F.

sextuple

Six times as much; sixfold.

(Mus.)

Divisible by six; having six beats;

as,

sixtuple

measure

Adj.

[Low L. sextuplus; sex, six, and duplus, double.]

1. Sixfold; six times as much.

2. In music, denoting a mixed sort of triple, beaten in double time, or a measure of two times composed of six equal notes, three for each time.

See also: sextuple

sextuplé m ‎(feminine singular sextuplée, masculine plural sextuplés, feminine plural sextuplées)