quadruple
See also: quadruplé
English
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| Cardinal: four Ordinal: fourth Latinate ordinal: quartary, quaternary Latinate reverse order ordinal: preantepenultimate Adverbial: four times Multiplier: fourfold Latinate multiplier: quadruple Distributive: quadruply Germanic collective: foursome Collective of n parts: quadruplet Greek or Latinate collective: tetrad Greek collective prefix: tetra-, tessera- Latinate collective prefix: quadri- Fractional: quarter, fourth Elemental: quadruplet Greek prefix: tetarto- Number of musicians: quartet Number of years: quadrennium, olympiad | ||
Etymology
[edit]From Middle English quadruple, from Latin quadruplus. Can be analyzed as quadri- + -ple.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkwɒd.ɹʊ.pəl/, /kwɒˈdɹuː.pəl/
- (General American) IPA(key): /kwɑˈdɹu.pəl/, /kwɑˈdɹʌp.əl/, /ˈkwɑd.ɹə.pəl/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -uːpəl
Adjective
[edit]quadruple (not comparable)
- Being four times as long, as big or as many of something.
- He's quite an athlete and can do quadruple jumps with ease.
Antonyms
[edit]- quarter (divided into four; one of four equal parts)
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]being four times as long, as big or as many of something
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Verb
[edit]quadruple (third-person singular simple present quadruples, present participle quadrupling, simple past and past participle quadrupled)
- (transitive) To multiply by four.
- Quadrupling four gives sixteen.
- (intransitive) To increase by a factor of four.
- Our profits quadrupled when we made the improvements.
- (rail transport) To provide four parallel running lines on a given stretch of railway.
- 1950 September, “Network News: Watford Tunnel, L.M.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 641:
- On June 8, 1872, the London & North Western Railway obtained powers to quadruple its main line, and a new tunnel was bored for the up and down slow lines.
- 2019 October, “Railtalk: HS2 delay - time for lateral thinking”, in Modern Railways, page 7:
- Quadrupling the short remaining stretch of three-track railway north of Rugby, left over by the turn of the century modernisation, is a possibility that could be pursued.
- 2020 April 22, Paul Shannon, “Felixstowe: Is 47 trains a day achievable?”, in Rail, page 52:
- A long-term aspiration is to quadruple the cross-country route between Peterborough and Werrington Junction, removing any conflict between trains on the Spalding and Leicester lines.
Antonyms
[edit]- quarter (divide by four)
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to multiply by four
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(intransitive) to increase by a factor of four
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Noun
[edit]quadruple (plural quadruples)
- Something that is four times the usual number, amount, size, etc.
- (skating) A figure-skating jump with four revolutions in the air.
- Synonym: quad
Derived terms
[edit]related to all parts of speech
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “quadruple”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “quadruple”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin quadruplus.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]| ← 3 | 4 | 5 → |
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| Cardinal: quatre Ordinal: quatrième Ordinal abbreviation: 4e, (nonstandard) 4ème Multiplier: quadruple Fractional: quart | ||
| French Wikipedia article on 4 | ||
quadruple (plural quadruples)
- quadruple
- Ils sont entrés dans l’histoire du patinage artistique en exécutant un quadruple salto, une première en couple.
- They entered into the history of artistic ice skating by executing a quadruple somersault, a first as a couple.
- la Quadruple Alliance ― the Quadruple Alliance
- (music) sixty-fourth note
- une quadruple croche ― a sixty-fourth note
Noun
[edit]quadruple m (plural quadruples)
- something that is equal to four times something else
- Je veux le quadruple de la prime normale.
- I want quadruple the normal premium.
- (Scrabble) a move whose score is multiplied by four
- Ce tirage permettait plusieurs quadruples.
- This draw allowed several quadruples
- J’ai perdu une douzaine de points sur un difficile "mosaique" en quadruple.
- I lost a dozen points on a difficult quadruple "mosaic".
- (Scrabble) the area on the board where such a move is possible
- Le quadruple en colonne 5 reste ouvert avec la séquence "ena" ou "ene".
- The quadruple on column 5 remains open with the sequence "ena" or "ene".
Related terms
[edit]Verb
[edit]quadruple
- inflection of quadrupler:
Further reading
[edit]- “quadruple”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
[edit]Adjective
[edit]quadruple f pl
Latin
[edit]Adjective
[edit]quadruple
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