Definition of Octonary. Meaning of Octonary. Synonyms of Octonary

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Definition of Octonary

Octonary
Octonary Oc`to*na*ry, a. [L. octonarius, fr. octoni eight each, fr. octo eight.] Of or pertaining to the number eight. --Dr. H. More.

Meaning of Octonary from wikipedia

- For the base-8 numeral system, see octal. An octonary is an eight-line section in a poem, song or psalm. The most notable example is found in Psalm 119...
- An alloy is a mixture of chemical elements of which at least one is a metal. Unlike chemical compounds with metallic bases, an alloy will retain all the...
- the correct terms for decimal and octal arithmetic would be denary and octonary, respectively. Alfred B. Taylor used senidenary in his mid-1800s work on...
- the ordinal adjective octaval or octavary, the distributive adjective is octonary. The adjective octuple (Latin octu-plus) may also be used as a noun, meaning...
- system. In the mid-19th century, Alfred B. Taylor concluded that "Our octonary [base 8] radix is, therefore, beyond all comparison the "best possible...
- sixth senary (ecto-, hecto-) seventh septenary (ebdomo-, hebdomo-) eighth octonary (ogdo-) ninth nonary (enato-) tenth decenary (decato-) eleventh undenary...
- eightieth Latin octogesimus octogesimal octon- eight each Latin octoni octonary ocul- eye Latin oculus, oculare ocular, oculus, ullage od- path, way Gr****...
- quintenary, quinquennary (5) hexanary, senary, ****enary (6) septenary (7) octonary (8) nonary, novenary (9) denary (10) undenary (11) duodenary (12) tridecennary...
- nonary decimary Distributive numbers singulary [citation needed] binary ternary, trinary quaternary quinary senary septenary octonary novenary denary...
- quinary pentadic 6-ary senary hexadic 7-ary septenary hebdomadic 8-ary octonary ogdoadic 9-ary novenary (alt. nonary) enneadic 10-ary denary (alt. decenary)...