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Definitions for Quadruple
kwɒˈdru pəl, -ˈdrʌp əl, ˈkwɒd rʊ pəlquadru·ple

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. quartet, quartette, quadruplet, quadruplenoun

    a set of four similar things considered as a unit

  2. quadrupleadjective

    a quantity that is four times as great as another

  3. quadruple, quadruplicate, quadruplex, fourfold, four-foldadjective

    having four units or components

    "quadruple rhythm has four beats per measure"; "quadruplex wire"

  4. quadruple, fourfold, four-foldverb

    four times as great or many

    "a fourfold increase in the dosage"

  5. quadrupleverb

    increase fourfold

    "His stock earning quadrupled"

Wiktionary

  1. quadrupleverb

    To multiply something by four times.

    Our profits quadrupled when we made the improvements.

  2. quadrupleadjective

    Being four times as long, as big or as many of something.

    He's quite an athlete and can do quadruple jumps with ease.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. QUADRUPLEadjective

    Fourfold; four times told.

    Etymology: quadruple, Fr. quadruplus, Lat.

    A law, that to bridle theft doth punish thieves with a quadruple restitution, hath an end which will continue as long as the world itself continueth. Richard Hooker.

    The lives of men on earth might have continued double, treble or quadruple, to any of the longest times of the first age. Walter Raleigh, History of the World.

    Fat refreshes the blood in the penury of aliment during the winter, and some animals have a quadruple caul. Arbuthnot.

ChatGPT

  1. quadruple

    A quadruple is a set or combination of four items, elements or units. It can also refer to something that is four times as much or as many.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Quadrupleadjective

    fourfold; as, to make quadruple restitution; a quadruple alliance

  2. Quadruplenoun

    four times the sum or number; a fourfold amount; as, to receive to quadruple of the amount in damages

  3. Quadrupleverb

    to multiply by four; to increase fourfold; to double; to double twice

  4. Quadrupleverb

    to be multiplied by four; to increase fourfold; to become four times as much

  5. Etymology: [L. quadruplus, from quattuor four: cf. F. quadruple. See Quadrate, and cf. Double.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Quadruple

    kwod′rōō-pl, 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. [Fr.,—L. quadruplusquatuor, four.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Quadruple in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Quadruple in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of Quadruple in a Sentence

  1. Jeff Goldstein:

    It's always nice when you quadruple what you spent to make a movie in a single weekend.

  2. Cao Jun:

    At the moment, we have 20-plus people in the factory, working 24 hours. We're offering them quadruple their wages per day, we aim to ramp up output on Jan. 27 and be at full capacity on Feb. 1, when we'd have nearly 200 workers.

  3. Cat Ellington:

    I don't just dare, I quadruple dare.

  4. Gene Sperling:

    He has double, triple, quadruple checked.

  5. Bernie Sanders:

    And here is the thank you that the taxpayers of this country received from Moderna for that huge investment: They are thanking the taxpayers of the United States by proposing to quadruple the price of the Covid vaccine to as much as $130 once the government stockpile runs out – at a time when it costs less than $3 to manufacture the vaccine.

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