heptameride

名词 n.

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名词 n.
  1. A thing having seven parts or divisions.
    — The Greeks had Seven Wise Men and Seven Sleepers, and the Pythagoreans saw magic in all the heptamerides.
  2. A seven-unit oligomer. dated
    — 1930, British Chemical Abstracts: Part A, Pure Chemistry, page 317, ISSN 0365-9259. The residue remaining after the separation of the heptameride is colourless and very viscous; there appears little prospect of isolating higher polymerides …
  3. An interval of pitch equal to 1/7 of a meride, or 1/301 of an octave. obsolete
    — Sauveur divided the heptameride into two demi-heptamerides. One demi-heptameride is 1/602 of an octave, with frequency ratio 1:2^(1/602) = 1.001 154 or 1.993 cents, very nearly 1/12 of a ditonic comma.

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heptamerides plural eptameride alternative

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From French heptaméride, from Ancient Greek ἑπτά (heptá, “seven”) + French méride (compare meridian).
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