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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Sesquialter, Sesquialteraladjective

    In geometry, is a ratio, where one quantity or number contains another once and half as much more, as 6 and9. Dict.

    Etymology: sesquialtere, Fr. sesquialter, Lat.

    In all the revolutions of the planets about the sun, and of the secondary planets about the primary ones, the periodical times is in a sesquialter proportion to the mean distance. George Cheyne.

    As the six primary planets revolve about the sun, so the secondary ones are moved about them in the same sesquialteral proportion of their periodical motions to their orbs. Richard Bentley.

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  1. sesquialter

    In mathematics, a superparticular ratio, also called a superparticular number or epimoric ratio, is the ratio of two consecutive integer numbers.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Sesquialteradjective

    sesquialteral

  2. Sesquialternoun

    alt. of Sesquialtera

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sesquialter in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sesquialter in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2


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