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sex•tu•plet

Pronunciation: (seks-tup'lit, -tOO'plit, -tyOO'-, seks'too-plit, -tyoo-), [key]
—n.
1. a group or combination of six things.
2. one of six offspring born at one birth.
3. sextuplets,six children or offspring born of one pregnancy.
4. Music.a group of six notes of equal value performed in the same time normally taken to perform four.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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