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SESQUI-ALTERATE

Volume 19 · 107 words · 1823 Edition

in Geometry and Arithmetic, is a ratio between two lines, two numbers, or the like, where one of them contains the other once, with the addition of a half.

Thus 6 and 9 are in a sesqui-alterate ratio; since 9 contains 6 once, and 3, which is half of 6, over; and 20 and 30 are in the same; as 30 contains 20, and half 20 or 10.

SESQUI-Duplicate ratio, is when of two terms the greater contains the less twice, and half the less remains; as 15 and 6; 50 and 20.

SESQUI-TERTIONAL proportion, is when any number or quantity contains another once and one third.