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Is there a word like cardinal or ordinal but for the “single, double, triple” series?
The words one, two, three, and so on are the cardinal numbers.
Similarly, first, second, third, and so on are the
ordinal numbers.
Is there a similar term for the words single, double, triple, ...
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When you have 5 instead of 4, what's the word instead of “quadrant”?
...or, to phrase it differently, like one of those silly SAT questions... please help me fill in this blank:
4 is to 5 as "quadrant" is to ????
(Does that make sense?)
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When do the “-uple”s end? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to form single, double, triple… and uni-, bi-, tri-… words?
There's single, double, triple, quadruple... — what's next? Is there an end to the ...
