quadruple
[kwo-droo-puh l, -druhp-uh l, kwod-roo-puh l]
- fourfold; consisting of four parts: a quadruple alliance.
- four times as great.
- Music. having four beats to a measure.
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- 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.
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- to make or become four times as great: To serve 24 people, quadruple the recipe. My savings quadrupled in 20 years.
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Origin of quadruple
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Contemporary Examples
In these European elections, Le Pen is set to quadruple the National Front's 2009 showing.
Investigators now believe that the lone bicyclist was a primary target in the quadruple homicide rocking Europe.
She arrived at the convention wearing a quadruple strand of pearls and significant diamond studs.
Over the next four decades, this population is projected to more than quadruple.
Smoke a pack of cigarettes each day and your annual radiation exposure will quadruple.
Historical Examples
These movements may be taken also with dual and with quadruple rhythm.
This exercise may be performed to advantage with quadruple rhythm.
From New York to Buffalo a quadruple track, thence a double track.
Hidden TreasuresHarry A. Lewis
Therefore there one single circle is made, here the quadruple of that.
The Way To GeometryPeter Ramus
And therefore be, is of quadruple value to db: And by the 14 e xij, it is the double of the said db.
The Way To GeometryPeter Ramus
quadruple
- to multiply by four or increase fourfold
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- four times as much or as many; fourfold
- consisting of four parts
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- a quantity or number four times as great as another
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Word Origin
C16: via Old French from Latin quadruplus, from quadru- (see quadri-) + -plus -fold
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Word Origin and History for quadruple
v.
late 14c., from Middle French quadrupler, from Late Latin quadruplare "make fourfold, multiply by four," from Latin quadruplus (adj.) "quadruple, fourfold" (see quadruple (adj.)).
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