Meaning

Ninefold..

Definitions by Sense

1. Ninefold.
2. (rare, music) Nine beats per measure.
3. The product of multiplying a given number by nine.
4. (rare, of dice) A throw in which all of nine dice show the same value (an event whose probability of occurring is 1,679,616 to 1).
5. (transitive, rare) Make nine times greater; multiply by nine.

Example Sentences

Ðe rigt hand diſcanteŧ in Noncuple uppon đe plain Triple of đe left hand.

Again adding 2124 (the triple of the Diviſor) to the Diviſor 708, I find 2832 for the quadruple of the Diviſor, which quadruple I ſubſcribe under the Triple, and proceeding in like manner, at laſt the Table is finiſh’d, which readily ſhews the Diviſor, with the duple, triple, quadruple, quintuple, ſextuple, ſeptuple, octuple, and noncuple of the Diviſor.

And so on to the ninth and last [row], in which you shall find the noncuple of the number given.

In the third […] you ſhall find the triple thereof. In the fourth the Quadruple thereof. In the fifth the Quintuple; and ſo on the ninth and laſt the Noncuple of the Number given.

For nine dice, to have 1 noncuple [... there is one] determinate throw [... and six] indeterminate throws.

If you shall quadruple the same weight it will draw down double the first distance, and noncuple will draw it down treble, etc.

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