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sextuplet

Definition of sextuplet

noun

  • 1each of six children born at one birth: only two other sets of sextuplets have been born in Britain
  • 2 Music a group of six notes to be performed in the time of four.

Origin:

mid 19th century: from sextuple, on the pattern of words such as triplet

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