decuplet

From decuple (“multiply by ten”) +‎ -et (“forming diminutives”).

decuplet (plural decuplets)

1. A group of ten, particularly

   Coordinate terms: singlet, couplet, triplet, quadruplet, tetraplet, pentuplet, sextuplet, septuplet, octuplet, nonuplet, centuplet, multiplet

   1. (music) A group of ten notes played in place of four or eight.
   2. (physics) A collection of spin-3/2 baryons described in the eightfold way.
2. One of a group of ten, particularly one of ten babies born to the same mother at one time.

   Hypernym: multiplet

• decaplet

• decuple
• undecuplet
• dodecuplet
• (set of 10 items) decimate, decimal

• dectuple