quadruple

See also: quadruplé

English

English numbers (edit)
40
[a], [b] ←  3 4 5  → [a], [b]
    Cardinal: four
    Ordinal: fourth
    Multiplier: quadruple, fourfold

Etymology

From Latin quadruplus. Can be analyzed as quadri- +‎ -uple.

Pronunciation

Adjective

quadruple (not comparable)

  1. 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

  • quarter (divided into four; one of four equal parts)

Translations

Verb

quadruple (third-person singular simple present quadruples, present participle quadrupling, simple past and past participle quadrupled)

  1. (transitive) To multiply by four.
    Quadrupling four gives sixteen.
  2. (intransitive) To increase by a factor of four.
    Our profits quadrupled when we made the improvements.

Antonyms

Translations

See also

Coefficient Noun Result
1 single singlet
2 double doublet
twin
3 triple triplet
4 quadruple quadruplet
5 quintuple
pentuple		 quintuplet
pentuplet
6 sextuple
hextuple		 sextuplet
hextuplet
7 septuple
heptuple		 septuplet
heptuplet
8 octuple octuplet
9 nonuple nonuplet
10 decuple decuplet
11 undecuple
hendecuple		 undecuplet
hendecuplet
12 duodecuple duodecuplet
13 tredecuple tredecuplet
100 centuple centuplet
many multiple multiplet

Further reading

  • quadruple in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • quadruple in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

French

Adjective

quadruple (plural quadruples)

  1. Which is repeated four times.
    Ils sont entrés dans l'histoire du patinage artistique en exécutant un quadruple salto, une première en couple.
  2. (chiefly music) Which is equal to four times, or the fourth power of another value.
    En musique, une quadruple croche est égale au huitième (½4) d'une noire.
    La Quadruple-Alliance de 1834 était une alliance offensive et défensive formée entre le Royaume-Uni, la France, la Belgique et l'Espagne.

Noun

quadruple m (plural quadruples)

  1. Something that is equal to four times something else.
    Je veux le quadruple de la prime normale.
  2. (Scrabble) A move whose score is multiplied by four.
    Ce tirage permettait permettait plusieurs quadruples.
    J'ai perdu une douzaine de points sur un difficile "mosaique" en quadruple.
  3. (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".

Verb

quadruple

  1. first-person singular present indicative of quadrupler
  2. third-person singular present indicative of quadrupler
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of quadrupler
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of quadrupler
  5. second-person singular imperative of quadrupler

Further reading

Italian

Adjective

quadruple f pl

  1. feminine plural of quadruplo

Latin

Adjective

quadruple

  1. vocative masculine singular of quadruplus
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