noncuple

Meanings

1. Ninefold.
2. Nine-to-one; (in 1729 quot.) imprecisely, with any number of aliquot parts over.
3. Nine times greater or larger than.
4. Nine times as great or as numerous.
5. Divided into nine equal segments.
6. Proceeding by powers of nine with exponents in integral succession (i.e.: 9¹, 9², 9³, 9⁴, ... = 9, 81, 729, 6,561, ...).

1. Nine beats per measure.
2. The product of multiplying a given number by nine.
3. A throw in which all of nine dice show the same value (an event whose probability of occurring is 1,679,616 to 1).

1. Make nine times greater; multiply by nine.

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.