quadruple

[kwo-droo-puh l, -druhp-uh l, kwod-roo-puh l]

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adjective

fourfold; consisting of four parts: a quadruple alliance.

four times as great.

Music. having four beats to a measure.

noun

a number, amount, etc., four times as great as another.

something, as a series of acrobatic somersaults, made up of four clearly defined parts or stages: the first trapeze artist to perform a quadruple successfully.

verb (used with or without object), quad·ru·pled, quad·ru·pling.

to make or become four times as great: To serve 24 people, quadruple the recipe. My savings quadrupled in 20 years.

Origin of quadruple

1325–75; Middle English < Latin quadruplus; cf. quadru-, duple

Related formsquad·ru·ple·ness, nounquad·ru·ply, adverb

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Related Words for quadruple

quadruplicate, quadruple, tetrad, quaternary, tetralogy, quaternity, quadrivium, quadruplet, quaternion, quadrumvirate, quartet, quadrigeminal, quadripartite, quadrivial, quaternate

Examples from the Web for quadruple

Contemporary Examples of quadruple

In these European elections, Le Pen is set to quadruple the National Front's 2009 showing.
Elections Could Be the Beginning of the End for Europe
Tracy McNicoll, Nadette De Visser
May 21, 2014
Investigators now believe that the lone bicyclist was a primary target in the quadruple homicide rocking Europe.
French Alps Murder Mystery’s Forensic Breakthrough
Barbie Latza Nadeau
October 20, 2012
She arrived at the convention wearing a quadruple strand of pearls and significant diamond studs.
Ann Romney's Red Dress At The Republican National Convention
Robin Givhan
August 29, 2012
Over the next four decades, this population is projected to more than quadruple.
Will Obamacare Explode the Deficit?
David Frum
April 11, 2012
Smoke a pack of cigarettes each day and your annual radiation exposure will quadruple.
Everyday Radiation in Your Life
The Daily Beast
March 18, 2011

Historical Examples of quadruple

These movements may be taken also with dual and with quadruple rhythm.
How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions
S. S. Curry
This exercise may be performed to advantage with quadruple rhythm.
How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions
S. S. Curry
From New York to Buffalo a quadruple track, thence a double track.
Hidden Treasures
Harry A. Lewis
Therefore there one single circle is made, here the quadruple of that.
The Way To Geometry
Peter Ramus
But the quadrate of as, by the grant, and 14 e xij, the quadruple of the quadrate of se.
The Way To Geometry
Peter Ramus

British Dictionary definitions for quadruple

quadruple

verb

to multiply by four or increase fourfold

adjective

four times as much or as many; fourfold

consisting of four parts

noun

a quantity or number four times as great as another

Derived Formsquadruply, adverb

Word Origin for quadruple

C16: via Old French from Latin quadruplus, from quadru- (see quadri-) + -plus -fold

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Word Origin and History for quadruple

late 14c., from Middle French quadrupler, from Late Latin quadruplare "make fourfold, multiply by four," from Latin quadruplus (adj.) "quadruple, fourfold" (see quadruple (adj.)).

adj.

1550s, from Middle French quadruple (13c.), from Latin quadruplus "fourfold," from quadri- "four" (see quadru-) + -plus "more" (see plus).