a. and sb. [ad. mod.L. æquimultiplex, f. æqui- (see EQUI-) + multiplex MULTIPLE.]

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  † A.  adj. That contains a number or quantity the same number of times that a third quantity contains a fourth. Obs.

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1656.  Hobbes, Six Lessons, Wks. 1845, VII. 240. The antecedents are of their consequents … equimultiple.

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  B.  sb. One of a set of numbers or quantities that each contain some other number or quantity the same number of times. Chiefly pl.

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[1570.  Billingsley, Euclid, II. i. 63. Numbers that are equemultiplices to one and the selfe same number.]

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1660.  Barrow, Euclid, V. iv. Take I and K the equimultiples of E and F.

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1793.  T. Beddoes, Math. Evid., 78. Take certain equimultiples of the first and third.

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1817.  H. T. Colebrooke, Algebra, 162. The quotient will be an equimultiple of the dividend.

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1878.  Gurney, Crystallogr., 19. Magnitudes and their equimultiples have the same ratios to one another.

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