Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pentadecathlon

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pen-tade-cathlon
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A sporting event consisting of fifteen different sports or contests.

noun

A particular oscillator that returns to its initial state after 15 generations.

Example Sentences

"X! Produces a westward stream of lightweight spaceships representing prime numbers: a LWSS escapes past the pentadecathlon around generation 120n+100 if and only if n is prime."
"The speed was very dependent on the number of live cells, but it ran the pentadecathlon at 92 gen/sec in the last version I measured."

Etymology

From pentadeca- + -athlon.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: pentadeca
Suffix: athlon

Inflected Forms

pentadecathlons (plural)

Questions

What does pentadecathlon mean?: A sporting event consisting of fifteen different sports or contests.
Where does pentadecathlon come from?: From pentadeca- + -athlon.

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