Submultiple: Definition and part of speech

Submultiple

  1. a. Of or pertaining to a submultiple; being a submultiple; as, a submultiple number; submultiple ratio.
  2. n. A number or quality which is contained in another an exact number of times, or is an aliquot part of it; thus, 7 is the submultiple of 56, being contained in it eight times.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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