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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Suboctave, Suboctupleadjective
Containing one part of eight.
Etymology: sub and octavus, Lat. and octuple.
As one of these under pulleys abates half of that heaviness of the weight, and causes the power to be in a subduple proportion, so two of them abate half of that which remains, and cause a subquadruple proportion, three a subsextuple, four a suboctuple. John Wilkins, Mathematical Magick.
Had they erected the cube of a foot for their principal concave, and geometrically taken its suboctave, the congius, from the cube of half a foot, they would have divided the congius into eight parts, each of which would have been regularly the cube of a quarter foot, their well-known palm: this is the course taken for our gallon, which has the pint for its suboctave. John Arbuthnot, on Coins.
Webster Dictionary
Suboctaveadjective
alt. of Suboctuple
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Suboctave
sub′ok-tāv, adj. existing in the proportion of 1 to 8.—n. an eighth part: (mus.) the octave below a given tone.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of suboctave in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of suboctave in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
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