Tuesday, July 22, 2008

What-Ho! It's time for, Word of the Weeeeeek!

octuple n 1 a quantity or number eight times as great as another. adj 2 eight times as much or as many. 3 consisting of eight parts. vb octuples, octupling, octupled. 4 (tr) to multiply by eight. ORIGIN: from L octuplus, from octo eight + -plus as in duplus double. Also from cephalopod mathematics. See: Squiddition.

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