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How to pronounce sextuplet in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms 6, captain hicks, half a dozen, hexad, sestet, sextet, sise, six, sixer, vi
Type of digit, figure

Examples of sextuplet

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This would make the Mizar-Alcor sextuplet the second-nearest such system known.
From the sciencedaily.com
However, that didn't stop the sextuplet of Gators from getting after Fowler.
From the orlandosentinel.com
They are the last two sextuplet babies born Apr. 6 to leave the hospital.
From the kansas.com
Data points are plotted as the mean of sextuplet measurements, with corresponding 95% confidence intervals.
From the nature.com
Headrick reached her 26th week of her sextuplet pregnancy this week and still has had no major complications.
From the kansas.com
She and her other five sextuplet siblings spend time with their parents at home in Rago, Kan. on Wednesday Nov. 29, 2006.
From the kansas.com
What's truly unique about this sextuplet is that each of them managed to describe their relationships and their style as something we can express only as yin and yang.
From the stltoday.com
A sextuplet alien solar system has been glimpsed in exquisite detail, revealing six planets of varying mass, five of which are packed closer to one another than in any planetary system seen before.
From the newscientist.com
More examples
  • Six: the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one
  • In music a tuplet (also irrational rhythm or groupings, artificial division or groupings, abnormal divisions, irregular rhythm, gruppetto, extra-metric groupings, or, rarely, contrametric rhythm) is "any rhythm that involves dividing the beat into a different number of equal subdivisions from ...
  • One of a group of six babies born from the same mother during the same birth
  • Six notes that take up the time of four (or another number).
  • A group of 6 notes to be performed in the time of 4 of the same kind in the regular rhythm.