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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)

  1. 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)

  1. (transitive) To multiply by four.
  2. (intransitive) To increase by a factor of four.
  3. (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)

  1. quadruple
    Ils sont entrés dans l'histoire du patinage artistique en exécutant un quadruple salto, une première en couple.
  2. (music) sixty-fourth note

Noun

quadruple m (plural quadruples)

  1. Something that is equal to four times something else.
    Je veux le quadruple de la prime normale.
  2. (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.
  3. (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

  1. first-person singular present indicative of quadrupler
  2. third-person singular present indicative of quadrupler
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of quadrupler
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of quadrupler
  5. 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

  1. feminine plural of quadruplo

Latin

Adjective

quadruple

  1. vocative masculine singular of quadruplus

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quadruplex

English

Etymology

From Latin quadruplex (fourfold, quadruple), from quattuor (four) + plico (fold)

Adjective

quadruplex (not comparable)

  1. Having four components.
  2. Of or relating to a system in telegraphy by which four messages (two in each direction) can be sent on one wire simultaneously.
  3. Of or relating to an early videotape format with four magnetic record/reproduce heads mounted on a headwheel spinning transversely across the tape.

Translations

Noun

quadruplex (plural quadruplexes)

  1. A quadruplex system.

Translations

Verb

quadruplex (third-person singular simple present quadruplexes, present participle quadruplexing, simple past and past participle quadruplexed)

  1. (transitive) To make quadruplex.

Latin

Etymology

From quattuor (four) + plic? (fold, double up)

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /?k?a.dru.pleks/, [?k?äd???p???ks?]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?kwa.dru.pleks/, [?kw??d??upl?ks]

Adjective

quadruplex (genitive quadruplicis); third-declension one-termination adjective

  1. fourfold, quadruple

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

Noun

quadruplex n (genitive quadruplicis); third declension

  1. a fourfold amount

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Related terms

  • quadruplic?ti?
  • quadruplic?t?
  • quadruplic?
  • quadrupl?
  • quadruplus

Descendants

  • English: quadruplex

References

  • quadruplex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • quadruplex in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • quadruplex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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