different between quadruplicate vs sextuplicate

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?

English

Etymology

From Latin sextuplic?tus, past participle form of sextuplic?re (“to sextuple”), from sextuplus (“sixfold”), from sextus (“sixth”) (from sex (“six”)) + -plus (“-fold”) (from plicare (“to fold”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s?ks?tju?pl?k?t/ (adjective)
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s?ks?tju?pl?ke?t/ (verb)

Adjective

sextuplicate (not comparable)

1. Six times the number, volume, length, etc. (of something else).

   The customer ordered a sextuplicate quantity.

2. Comprising six identical parts.

   Benzene is a sextuplicate hydrocarbon.

Noun

sextuplicate (plural sextuplicates)

1. A series, set, collection, or group of six identical copies of something.
   • 1945: United States Twelfth Army, Report of Operations: Final After Action Report, PAGE UNKNOWN

     If the official receipt is not available, the appropriate CA officer will prepare a similar receipt in sextuplicate.

   • 1985: Erich Segal, The Class, p28 (Bantam Books, ?ISBN

     …signed (in quadruplicate for the Financial Office, quintuplicate for the Registrar, and, inexplicably, sextuplicate for the Health Department).

Verb

sextuplicate (third-person singular simple present sextuplicates, present participle sextuplicating, simple past and past participle sextuplicated)

1. (transitive) To make six copies of.

   Sextuplicate this document for me, please.

Derived terms

• sextuplicately
• sextuplication

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