different between quadruplet vs quadruplex

English

Etymology

quadruple +? -et

Noun

quadruplet (plural quadruplets)

1. One of a group of four babies born from the same mother during the same birth.
2. (music) A tuplet of four notes.
3. A sequence of four elements.
4. A cycle for carrying four riders, arranged so that all the riders can assist in the propulsion.

Derived terms

• prime quadruplet

Translations

See also

French

Noun

quadruplet m (plural quadruplets)

1. quadruplet (sequence of 4 elements)

Latin

Verb

quadruplet

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of quadrupl?

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