superpartient

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin superpartiens, from super (“over”) + partiens, the past participle of partire (“to divide”).

Adjective

superpartient (not comparable)

1. (mathematics, archaic) Being or relating to a ratio where the larger value exceeds the smaller by more than one unit, as in 3 to 5.
   • 1734, Isaac Barrow, “Lecture XIX. Of the Species and Differences of Geometrical Reason.”, in John Kirkby, transl., The Usefulness of Mathematical Learning Explained and Demonstrated: Being Mathematical Lectures Read in the Publick Schools at the University of Cambridge. […], London: […] Stephen Austen, […], →OCLC, page 362:

     [W]e proceed to a Superpartient Reaſon, which is when the Antecedent exceeds the Conſequent by ſome Aliquot Parts more than one, whence the Name: […] Thus 9 is ſaid to be in a Superpartient Reaſon to 7, because 9 exceeds 7 by two 7th Parts.

Further reading

• “superpartient”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.