sextuplet

sextuplet
/seks tup"lit, -tooh"plit, -tyooh"-, seks"too plit, -tyoo-/, n.
1. a group or combination of six things.
2. one of six offspring born at one birth.
3. sextuplets, six children or offspring born of one pregnancy.
4. Music. a group of six notes of equal value performed in the same time normally taken to perform four.
[1850-55; SEXTUPLE + -ET; cf. TRIPLET]

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