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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
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.
Webster Dictionary
Sesquialteraladjective
alt. of Sesquialterate
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Sesquialteral
ses-kwi-al′te-ral, adj. one and a half more—also Sesquial′terate, Sesquial′terous.—n. Sesquial′tera (mus.), the interval of a perfect fifth, having the ratio of 2 to 3: a rhythm in which three minims are made equal to a preceding two. [L. sesquialter.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of sesquialteral in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of sesquialteral in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
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