Quattuordecimal

Quick meaning: Quattuordecimal is an adjective meaning (rare) Based upon the number fourteen.

Meaning

(rare) Based upon the number fourteen.

Example Sentences

[…] 5-8 introduces a hint of melismatic complexity, inserting into its duple meter a series of triplets and a melismatic quattuordecimal (14-note) figure.

Reinterpret these symbols as the digits (!) in a quattuordecimal number system, i.e. a number system based on 14 in the same way that the decimal system is based on 10.

Talk about a bumpy night, “La La Land” is now the only movie to be nominated for 14 Oscars and not win Best Picture. (Don’t ask me why I’m smiling.) But it does have something over the first film to receive decatessariple (quattuordecimal?) nominations, “All About Eve.”

But perhaps the most surprising “most-needed additions” of this kind are “teddera, peddera, pimp, and yan-a-dick,” which are said to be numerals used for counting sheep. It is not quite clear what numbers these additions displace or whether the shepherd has really adopted a “quattuor-decimal” system.

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