quadruplet

[kwo-druhp-lit, -droo-plit, kwod-roo-plit]

noun

1. any group or combination of four.

2. quadruplets, four children or offspring born of one pregnancy.

3. one of four such children or offspring.

4. Music.,  a group of four notes of equal value performed in the time normally taken for three.

quadruplet

/ kwɒˈdruːplɪt, ˈkwɒdrʊplɪt /

noun

1. Often shortened to: quad. one of four offspring born at one birth

2. a group or set of four similar things

3. music a group of four notes to be played in a time value of three

Word History and Origins

Origin of quadruplet¹

1780–90; quadruple + -et (modeled on triplet )

Example Sentences

A dairy cow giving birth to extremely rare quadruplet calves has been described as "unheard of" by farm staff.

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A nurse in Gaza has told the BBC his wife and six children - including a group of quadruplets - were killed in an attack in the central Gaza strip.

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Unfortunately, she says, she may be having quadruplets and she knows Che can’t afford to raise them: “You work one day a week,” she said.

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“That would be so fun meeting chickens,” said 7-year-old Mason, who wore a matching yellow sweater with his fellow quadruplets.

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They theorized that the atom is actually doing many things simultaneously: scattering not only single photons but also, through an entirely different process, photonic pairs, triplets and quadruplets.

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