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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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quadruplicate

English

Etymology

From Latin quadruplicatus.

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /?kw??d?u?pl?k?t/

Adjective

quadruplicate (not comparable)

  1. having four parts
    • 1903: H.G. Wells, Mankind in the Making
      The small schools might specialize upon the type locally most desirable, the larger might group its triplicate (or quadruplicate) system of sustained and serious courses about a common Library []
  2. four times over, multiplied by four
    • 1891: Rudyard Kipling, American Notes
      [] Fortune, who delights in making the miner or the lumber-man a quadruplicate millionaire and in "busting" the railroad king.

Noun

quadruplicate (plural quadruplicates)

  1. in quadruplicate: four times over, in four copies
    • c.1886: Rudyard Kipling, The Lovers' Litany
      Four times Cupid's debtor I-- / Bankrupt in quadruplicate.

Verb

quadruplicate (third-person singular simple present quadruplicates, present participle quadruplicating, simple past and past participle quadruplicated)

  1. To replicate four times; to make fourfold; to quadruple.

See also

  • triplicate
  • duplicate

Italian

Verb

quadruplicate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of quadruplicare
  2. second-person plural imperative of quadruplicare
  3. feminine plural of quadruplicato

Latin

Verb

quadruplic?te

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of quadruplic?

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