septuplet
One of seven
A septuplet is one of seven offspring born in a single birth.
Human septuplets are extremely rare and require intensive medical care to survive.
The word also applies in music to a group of seven notes played in the time normally occupied by four or six: The pianist executed the septuplet flawlessly.
Quantities divisible evenly
- siblingsFellow offspring
- identicalExactly the same
- fraternalOf sibling bonds
- conceptionFormation of an idea
fertility · gestation · pregnancy · neonatal · octuplets · sextuplets · quintuplets · quadruplets
Group of seven
Portion of something larger
- groupingArrangement by shared traits
- notationSystem of written symbols
- beatRhythmic pulse or strike
- polyrhythmOverlapping musical beat patterns
sextuplet · triplet · quadruplet · syncopation · measure · time-signature · beaming · bracket
multiples
Quantities divisible evenly
conception · fertility · gestation · pregnancy · neonatal · octuplets · sextuplets · quintuplets · quadruplets · triplets
heptad
Group of seven
set · collection · sequence · series · cluster · unit · bundle
subdivision
Portion of something larger
polyrhythm · sextuplet · triplet · quadruplet · syncopation · measure · time-signature · beaming · bracket · irregular
- rhythm notationwhole note, half note, quarter note, eighth note, sixteenth note
septupletsingleton
Only member present
only child · twin · triplet · doublet · quadruplet