Quadruple
['kwɒdrʊp(ə)l;kwɒ'druːp(ə)l] or [kwɑ'drupl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a quantity that is four times as great as another.
(verb.) increase fourfold; 'His stock earning quadrupled'.
(adj.) four times as great or many; 'a fourfold increase in the dosage' .
(adj.) having four units or components; 'quadruple rhythm has four beats per measure'; 'quadruplex wire' .
整理:奥蒂斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Fourfold; as, to make quadruple restitution; a quadruple alliance.
(n.) four times the sum or number; a fourfold amount; as, to receive to quadruple of the amount in damages.
(v. t.) To multiply by four; to increase fourfold; to double; to double twice.
(v. i.) To be multiplied by four; to increase fourfold; to become four times as much.
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同義詞及近義詞：
a. Fourfold.
雨果錄入
解釋/意思:
adj. fourfold.—n. four times the quantity or number.—v.t. to increase fourfold.—v.i. to become four times as many.—n. Quad′ruplet any combination of four things—also Quart′et: one of four born at a birth.—adj. Quad′ruplex fourfold esp. of a telegraphic system capable of sending four messages two in each direction simultaneously over one wire.—n. an instrument of this kind.—v.t. to arrange for quadruplex transmission.—adj. Quadru′plicate fourfold.—n. one of four corresponding things.—v.t. to make fourfold.—ns. Quadruplicā′tion; Quadru′plicāture; Quadruplic′ity.—adv. Quad′ruply in a fourfold manner.—Quadruple Alliance a league formed in 1718 between England France Austria and Holland to counteract the ambitious schemes of Alberoni.
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例句/造句/用法:
- You are strongly guarded and a quadruple force patrols the sky. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- The quadruple press of 1887 turned out eight-page papers at a running speed of 18,000 per hour, these being cut, pasted and folded ready for the carrier or the mails. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Quadruple the air patrol, and let every man who leaves the city by air or ground be subjected to the closest scrutiny. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Why does it not double or quadruple its numbers? 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Men learnt so to fertilize the soil as to produce quadruple and quintuple the crops got from the same area in the seventeenth century. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- A fine example is shown in Fig. 92, which represents the quadruple expansion engines of the Deutschland, the new steamer of the Hamburg-American Line. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- One of the latest quadruple stereotype perfecting presses made by Hoe & Co. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The production of printed sheets per hour over the hand-press was at once quadrupled, and very shortly 1800 sheets per hour were printed. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- He had always doubled, and sometimes quadrupled, his fees. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Their world had suddenly quadrupled. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- With such perfect freedom of movement, the spindle at high speed could find its own center of revolution, and an indefinitely high speed and quadrupled efficiency were attained. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Now the number of machines and pairs of boots and shoes has been quadrupled. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
整理:露丝