/seks tup"lit, -tooh"plit, -tyooh"-, seks"too plit, -tyoo-/ , 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.
[ 1850-55; SEXTUPLE + -ET; cf. TRIPLET ]