superparticular
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
6
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of a natural number, being larger than another natural number by a unit fraction of that smaller number.
Obsolete
adj
Pertaining to a ratio of any whole number to the next below it (e.g. tfrac 3 2, tfrac 8 7, etc.).
Example Sentences
- "'Tis superparticular, sesquialtera, sesquitertia […] all those geometric proportions are too little to express it."
- "When a number contains the whole of another in itself, and some part of it besides, it is called superparticular. And if the part of the less it contains is the half, it is called sesquialter; if the third part, sesquitertian; if the fourth, sesquiquartan; if the fifth, sesquiquintan. And the like names being employed to infinity, the form of superparticular numbers will also proceed infinitely."
Etymology
From Late Latin superparticulāris.
Word Breakdown
- Root: superparticulāris