heptameride
/hɛpˈtæməɹaɪd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The Greeks had Seven Wise Men and Seven Sleepers, and the Pythagoreans saw magic in all the heptamerides."
- "1930, British Chemical Abstracts: Part A, Pure Chemistry, page 317, ISSN 0365-9259. The residue remaining after the separation of the heptameride is colourless and very viscous; there appears little prospect of isolating higher polymerides …"
- "1938, Albert Ernest Dunstan, Benjamin Talbott Brooks (eds), The Science of Petroleum, vol. 4, page 2830, OCLC 313182716. Fractionation of the liquid polymers gave compounds up to the heptameride."
- "1939, British Chemical Abstracts: Part A, Pure Chemistry, page 602, ISSN 0365-9259. From available v.d. data the existence of polymerides is shown and the relative amounts of various associated forms up to the heptameride have been calc."
- "Sauveur divided the heptameride into two demi-heptamerides. One demi-heptameride is 1/602 of an octave, with frequency ratio 1:2^(1/602) = 1.001 154 or 1.993 cents, very nearly 1/12 of a ditonic comma."
- "As 301 = 7 × 43, he called each degree a heptameride, which he made = .03987 of an (equal) Semitone."
Etymology
From French heptaméride, from Ancient Greek ἑπτά (heptá, “seven”) + French méride (compare meridian).
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: heptaméride