different between octuplicate vs sextuplicate

English

Etymology

Latin; probably patterned after duplicate from Latin duplicare (“to double”).

Noun

octuplicate (countable and uncountable, plural octuplicates)

1. A set of eight like or identical things.
   • 1942, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Sir Owen Seaman, Sir Francis Cowley Burnand, Punch

     It was an understood thing in our squadron that no one was on any account to bring the Baron down, but some of our pilots had come close enough to see his beetling brows and purple cheeks reflected in octuplicate.

   • 1978, American Oil Chemists' Society, Lipids

     Letters of nomination together with supporting documents must be submitted in octuplicate to Earl G. Hammond, Department of Food Technology […]

Verb

octuplicate (third-person singular simple present octuplicates, present participle octuplicating, simple past and past participle octuplicated)

1. To make eight copies of something

English

Etymology

From Latin sextuplic?tus, past participle form of sextuplic?re (“to sextuple”), from sextuplus (“sixfold”), from sextus (“sixth”) (from sex (“six”)) + -plus (“-fold”) (from plicare (“to fold”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s?ks?tju?pl?k?t/ (adjective)
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s?ks?tju?pl?ke?t/ (verb)

Adjective

sextuplicate (not comparable)

1. Six times the number, volume, length, etc. (of something else).

   The customer ordered a sextuplicate quantity.

2. Comprising six identical parts.

   Benzene is a sextuplicate hydrocarbon.

Noun

sextuplicate (plural sextuplicates)

1. A series, set, collection, or group of six identical copies of something.
   • 1945: United States Twelfth Army, Report of Operations: Final After Action Report, PAGE UNKNOWN

     If the official receipt is not available, the appropriate CA officer will prepare a similar receipt in sextuplicate.

   • 1985: Erich Segal, The Class, p28 (Bantam Books, ?ISBN

     …signed (in quadruplicate for the Financial Office, quintuplicate for the Registrar, and, inexplicably, sextuplicate for the Health Department).

Verb

sextuplicate (third-person singular simple present sextuplicates, present participle sextuplicating, simple past and past participle sextuplicated)

1. (transitive) To make six copies of.

   Sextuplicate this document for me, please.

Derived terms

• sextuplicately
• sextuplication

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