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English
Etymology
From decuple (“multiply by ten”) + -et (“forming diminutives”).
Noun
decuplet (plural decuplets)
- A group of ten, particularly
- Coordinate terms: singlet, couplet, triplet, quadruplet, tetraplet, pentuplet, sextuplet, septuplet, octuplet, nonuplet, centuplet, multiplet
- (music) A group of ten notes played in place of four or eight.
- (physics) A collection of spin-3/2 baryons described in the eightfold way.
- One of a group of ten, particularly one of ten babies born to the same mother at one time.
- Hypernym: multiplet
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one of ten babies born at the same birth
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