septuplet

septuplet
/sep tup"lit, -tooh"plit, -tyooh"-/, n.
1. any group or combination of seven.
2. one of seven offspring born at one birth.
3. septuplets, seven offspring born at one birth.
4. Music. a group of seven notes of equal value performed in the same amount of time normally taken to perform four or six.
[1890-95; SEPTUPLE + -ET]

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