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Word Meanings - SESQUIDUPLICATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Twice and a half as great ; having the ratio of two and a half to one. Sesquiduplicate ratio , the ratio of two and a half to one, or one in which the greater term contains the lesser twice and a half, as that of 50 to 20.

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  • RATIOCINATE
    To reason, esp. deductively; to offer reason or argument.
  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • RATIONALIZATION
    The act or process of rationalizing.
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • RATIONALISTIC; RATIONALISTICAL
    Belonging to, or in accordance with, the principles of rationalism. -- Ra`tion*al*is"tic*al*ly, adv.
  • GREAT-HEARTED
    1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
  • GREAT-GRANDFATHER
    The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
  • RATIOCINATION
    The process of reasoning, or deducing conclusions from premises; deductive reasoning.
  • HAVELOCK
    A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
  • RATION
    1. A fixed daily allowance of provisions assigned to a soldier in the army, or a sailor in the navy, for his subsistence. Note: Officers have several rations, the number varying according to their rank or the number of their attendants. 2. Hence,
  • GREAT-GRANDSON
    A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
  • GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
    The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
  • HAVE
    haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • HAVENAGE
    Harbor dues; port dues.
  • RATIONALLY
    In a rational manner.
  • GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
    The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
  • HAVEN
    habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
  • RATIONAL
    Expressing the type, structure, relations, and reactions of a compound; graphic; -- said of formulæ. See under Formula. Rational horizon. See Horizon, 2 . -- Rational quantity , one that can be expressed without the use of a radical sign, or
  • HAVANA
    Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
  • MIGRATION
    The act of migrating.
  • COMMISERATION
    The act of commiserating; sorrow for the wants, afflictions, or distresses of another; pity; compassion. And pluck commiseration of his state From brassy bosoms and rough hearts of flint. Shak. Syn. -- See Sympathy.
  • INGREAT
    To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
  • DEDECORATION
    Disgrace; dishonor. Bailey.
  • INCARCERATION
    1. The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment. Glanvill. Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia. A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.
  • EXULCERATION
    1. Ulceration. Quincy. 2. A fretting; a festering; soreness. Hooker.
  • IMPREPARATION
    Want of preparation. Hooker.
  • IRRATIONAL
    Not capable of being exactly expressed by an integral number, or by a vulgar fraction; surd; -- said especially of roots. See Surd. Syn. -- Absurd; foolish; preposterous; unreasonable; senseless. See Absurd. (more info) 1. Not rational; void of
  • ELABORATION
    The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle,
  • REVERBERATION
    The act of reverberating; especially, the act of reflecting light or heat, or reëchoing sound; as, the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of voices; the reverberation of heat or flame
  • REMONSTRATION
    The act of remonstrating; remonstrance. Todd.
  • FISSURATION
    The act of dividing or opening; the state of being fissured.
  • EVAPORATION
    See VAPORIZATION (more info) 1. The process by which any substance is converted from a liquid state into, and carried off in, vapor; as, the evaporation of water, of ether, of camphor. 2.

 

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