noun
centuplet
Centuplet (noun) means Another word for a hundred: a group of 100 things or people.
noun
1
Another word for a hundred: a group of 100 things or people.
2
One of a hundred children born to the same mother at once, from a single fertilised egg or with matching DNA.
"Centuplets. A hundred siblings sharing the same group of codons. What would they be like? How would they grow? Could a man live in a world shared by fifty brothers and fifty sisters? That was part of the experiment."
— Robert Silverberg, Thorns (2014)
"The tadpoles thus produced are then identical twins, octuplets, or centuplets of the original donor of the transplanted nuclei."
— Robert T. Francoeur, Eve's New Rib: Twenty Faces of Sex (1972)
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Etymology
From centuple plus -et, which see.
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What is the meaning of centuplet?
"centuplet" (noun) means another word for a hundred: a group of 100 things or people.
What is another word for centuplet?
Other words for "centuplet" include hundred.
What are the different meanings of centuplet?
"centuplet" has 2 main meanings: 1. Another word for a hundred: a group of 100 things or people; 2. One of a hundred children born to the same mother at once, from a single fertilised egg or with matching DNA.
