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quadruple
English
Etymology
From Latin quadruplus. Can be analyzed as quadri- +? -uple.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?kw?d??pl/
- (General American) IPA(key): /kw??d?up?l/
- Rhymes: -u?p?l
Adjective
quadruple (not comparable)
- Being four times as long, as big or as many of something.
Antonyms
- quarter (divided into four; one of four equal parts)
Translations
Verb
quadruple (third-person singular simple present quadruples, present participle quadrupling, simple past and past participle quadrupled)
- (transitive) To multiply by four.
- (intransitive) To increase by a factor of four.
- (rail transport) To provide four parallel running lines on a given stretch of railway.
Antonyms
- quarter (divide by four)
Translations
See also
Further reading
- quadruple in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- quadruple in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- quadrupel
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin quadruplus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.d?ypl/, /kwa.d?ypl/
Adjective
quadruple (plural quadruples)
- quadruple
- Ils sont entrés dans l'histoire du patinage artistique en exécutant un quadruple salto, une première en couple.
- (music) sixty-fourth note
Noun
quadruple m (plural quadruples)
- Something that is equal to four times something else.
- Je veux le quadruple de la prime normale.
- (Scrabble) A move whose score is multiplied by four.
- Ce tirage permettait permettait plusieurs quadruples.
- J'ai perdu une douzaine de points sur un difficile "mosaique" en quadruple.
- (Scrabble) The area on the board where such a move is possible.
- Le quadruple en colonne 5 reste ouvert avec la séquence "ena" ou "ene".
Related terms
- nonuple
Verb
quadruple
- first-person singular present indicative of quadrupler
- third-person singular present indicative of quadrupler
- first-person singular present subjunctive of quadrupler
- third-person singular present subjunctive of quadrupler
- second-person singular imperative of quadrupler
Further reading
- “quadruple” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Adjective
quadruple f pl
- feminine plural of quadruplo
Latin
Adjective
quadruple
- vocative masculine singular of quadruplus
quadruple From the web:
- what quadruple means
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- quadruplet meaning
- what quadrupled 4
- quadruplex meaning
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percent
English
Alternative forms
- p. c., p.c., pc, pct (abbreviation)
- per cent (mostly UK)
- per cent. (archaic)
- per centum
Etymology
From New Latin per centum (“by the hundred”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /p??s?nt/
- (US) IPA(key): /p??s?nt/
- Rhymes: -?nt
Adverb
percent (not comparable)
- For every hundred (used with preceding numeral to form a noun phrase expressing a proportion). [from 16th c.]
- 2002, Leon Jaroff, Time, 8 May:
- Diane Watson has had a distinguished career in education and politics, and last year was elected to the House of Representatives, winning 75 percent of the vote in her Congressional district.
- 2016, Arthur Neslen, The Guardian, 7 July:
- Twelve percent of the world’s population now relies directly or indirectly on the fisheries industry.
- 2002, Leon Jaroff, Time, 8 May:
Usage notes
- A percentage is often denoted by the character %.
- 50% denotes 50 percent.
- The difference of two percentages is measured by percentage point, not by percent.
Derived terms
- percentage
- percentual
- percentwise
Noun
percent (plural percent or percents)
- A percentage, a proportion (especially per hundred).
- One part per hundred; one percent. [from 19th c.]
- 2008, Niall Ferguson, The Ascent of Money, Penguin 2008, p. 254:
- And from 1966, under Regulation Q, there was a ceiling of 5.5 per cent on their deposit rates, a quarter of a per cent more than banks were allowed to pay.
- 2008, Niall Ferguson, The Ascent of Money, Penguin 2008, p. 254:
Translations
Prepositional phrase
percent
- Per hundred.
- 2014, Alan Tussy, Diane Koenig, Basic Mathematics for College Students with Early Integers (?ISBN), page 637:
- By how many percent did the cancer survival rate for breast cancer increase by 2008?
- 2014, Alan Tussy, Diane Koenig, Basic Mathematics for College Students with Early Integers (?ISBN), page 637:
Usage notes
- Percent/per cent originated as a shortening of the Latin phrase per centum, “per hundred”, and historically the use of the word as a noun (as in “half a percent” or “percents”) was regarded as an error, though such use has now become so common that it is recognized by all other major dictionaries, and a few treat the word as being only a noun. Of those which recognize non-nounal uses, most label it an adverb and many also label it an adjective though it does not meet tests of adjectivity.
See also
- per mille, permille, ‰
- per myriad, ?
- ppm, ppb, ppt, ppq
Typography
References
- percent at OneLook Dictionary Search
- percent in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- -nercept, precent
French
Verb
percent
- third-person plural present indicative of percer
- third-person plural present subjunctive of percer
Hungarian
Etymology
percen +? -t
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?p?rt?s?nt]
- Hyphenation: per?cent
Verb
percent
- third-person singular indicative past indefinite of percen
percent From the web:
- what percentage
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- what percent of america is white
- what percentage of covid cases are asymptomatic
- what percentage of the human body is water
- what percent of marriages end in divorce
- what percent of america is black
- what percent of americans have covid
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