Quadruple
['kwɒdrʊp(ə)l;kwɒ'druːp(ə)l] or [kwɑ'drupl]
Definition
(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' .
Checker: Otis--From WordNet
Definition
(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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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Fourfold.
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Definition
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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Examples
- You are strongly guarded and a quadruple force patrols the sky. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- 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. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Quadruple the air patrol, and let every man who leaves the city by air or ground be subjected to the closest scrutiny. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Why does it not double or quadruple its numbers? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Men learnt so to fertilize the soil as to produce quadruple and quintuple the crops got from the same area in the seventeenth century. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- 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. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- One of the latest quadruple stereotype perfecting presses made by Hoe & Co. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The production of printed sheets per hour over the hand-press was at once quadrupled, and very shortly 1800 sheets per hour were printed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He had always doubled, and sometimes quadrupled, his fees. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Their world had suddenly quadrupled. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- 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. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Now the number of machines and pairs of boots and shoes has been quadrupled. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Typist: Ruth