Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

noncuple

/ˈnɒnkjuːpl/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: non-cu-ple
IPA: /ˈnɒnkjuːpl/

12

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

adj

adj

adj

adj

noun

Nine beats per measure.

noun

The product of multiplying a given number by nine.

noun

A throw in which all of nine dice show the same value (an event whose probability of occurring is 1,679,616 to 1).

Example Sentences

"1557, Robert Record, Whetstone of Witte, sig. Eiii 36 vnto 4 is a noncuple proportion."
"Both triples added together […] make the proportion or amounting Ratio Noncuple, or ninefold."
"Let the Saltpeter be taken together with the Gun-powder in ſeveral Degrees of Superparticular and Superpartient, as Sextuple, Septuple, Octuple, Noncuple and Decuple; or Sixfold, Sevenfold, Eightfold, Ninefold and Tenfold."
"The eighth is vacant because there is no noncuple proportion of 9/1 on the monochord."
"To proue that a trilater equilater Pyramis, is noncuple to a cube inscribed in it."
"The Space run thro’ in the double Time, is quadruple to that ran thro’ in a ſubduple Time; that run thro’ in the triple Time is noncuple."

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.

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /ˈnɒnkjuːpl/

Usage

Transitive verb

Derived Forms

noncuplication

Questions

How do you pronounce noncuple?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈnɒnkjuːpl/.
What does noncuple mean?: Ninefold.
Where does noncuple come from?: 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.

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