sextuplet

English

Etymology

From sextuple +‎ -et.

Noun

sextuplet (plural sextuplets)

1. A group of six objects.

   Coordinate terms: singlet, couplet, triplet, quadruplet, tetraplet, pentuplet, quintuplet, septuplet, octuplet, nonuplet, decuplet, centuplet, multiplet

2. One of a group of six persons or animals born from the same mother during the same birth.
3. (music) A group of six notes played in the time of four.
   1. (music, proscribed) A group of six notes played in the time of four, with accents on the first, third and fifth notes.
   2. (music, proscribed) A group of six notes played in the time of four, with accents on the first and fourth notes; a double triplet.
   3. (music, proscribed) A group of six notes played in the time of four, with an accent only on the first note.

Usage notes

Some authorities (for instance, Hugo Riemann, Theodore Bacon and Franklin Taylor) consider the double triplet to be a "false sextuplet", others (for instance, Evangelos Sembos, John Stainer and William Alexander Barrett) define the sextuplet solely as the double triplet, and still others (such as Antoine Damour, Aimable Burnett, and Élie Elwart) do not differentiate between the two.

Synonyms

• (six notes played in the time of four): sextolet

Coordinate terms

• (one of six born together): twin

Translations

one of six born together

• Danish: seksling (da) c
• Dutch: zesling (nl) m
• Finnish: kuutonen (fi)
• French: sextuplé (fr)
• German: Sechsling (de) m
• Japanese: 六つ子 (ja) (mutsugo)
• Maori: māhanga ono
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: seksling m

  Nynorsk: seksling m

• Turkish: altız (tr)
• Yoruba: ìbẹ́fà

See also

Number	1	2	3	4	5
Modifier	single	double / twofold	triple / threefold	quadruple / fourfold	quintuple / pentuple / fivefold
Whole	loner / singleton / monad	pair / couple / twosome / dyad	trio / threesome / triad / troika	foursome / tetrad	fivesome
Part	only one / singlet	twin / one of two / doublet	triplet / one of three	quadruplet / one of four	quintuplet / pentuplet / one of five
Number	6	7	8	9	10
Modifier	sextuple / hextuple / sixfold	septuple / heptuple / sevenfold	octuple / eightfold	ninefold / nonuple	tenfold / decuple
Whole	sixsome	sevensome	eightsome	ninesome	tensome / decad
Part	sextuplet / hextuplet / one of six	one of seven / septuplet / heptuplet	octuplet / one of eight	one of nine / nonuplet	one of ten / decuplet
Number	11	12	13	100	many
Modifier	elevenfold / undecuple / hendecuple	twelvefold / duodecuple	thirteenfold / tredecuple	a hundredfold / centuple	multiple
Whole	elevensome	twelvesome	thirteensome	hundredsome
Part	one of eleven / undecuplet / hendecuplet	one of twelve / duodecuplet	one of thirteen / tredecuplet	one of a hundred / centuplet	one of many / multiplet