centuple
See also: centuplé
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -uːpəl
Adjective
centuple (not comparable)
- Hundredfold. Multiplied by one hundred.
Translations
Verb
centuple (third-person singular simple present centuples, present participle centupling, simple past and past participle centupled)
- (intransitive) To increase a hundredfold.
- (transitive) To increase or multiply something by a hundred.
- 2015, Errico Malatesta, Carl Levy, Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta
- "Mechanisation, science, and technology have centupled the productive potential of human labour."
- 2015, Errico Malatesta, Carl Levy, Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta
Related terms
French
Verb
centuple
- first-person singular present indicative of centupler
- third-person singular present indicative of centupler
- first-person singular present subjunctive of centupler
- first-person singular present subjunctive of centupler
- second-person singular imperative of centupler
Italian
Adjective
centuple
- feminine plural of centuplo
Latin
Adjective
centūple
- vocative masculine singular of centūplus
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