decuplet
Meanings
noun
- A group of ten, particularly
- A group of ten notes played in place of four or eight.
- A collection of spin-3/2 baryons described in the eightfold way.
- One of a group of ten, particularly one of ten babies born to the same mother at one time.
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Etymology
From decuple (“multiply by ten”) + -et (“forming diminutives”).
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