Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Consisting of ten parts or members.
- adj. Ten times as much in size, strength, number, or amount.
- n. A tenfold amount or number.
- v. To multiply or be multiplied by ten.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Tenfold; containing ten times as many.
- n. A number ten times repeated.
- To increase tenfold.
Wiktionary
- adj. archaic Ten times as much.
- n. archaic An amount multiplied by ten.
- v. archaic To multiply by ten.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. rare Tenfold.
- n. rare A number ten times repeated.
- v. rare To make tenfold; to multiply by ten.
Etymologies
- From French décuple, from Late Latin decuplus ("tenfold"), from Latin decem ("ten"), and plico ("fold"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin decuplus : Latin decem, ten; see dekm̥ in Indo-European roots + Latin -plus, -fold; see pel-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“With decuple vigour the stench now rose close to hand.”
“And so oft do away þe lasse nounbre out of his owne decuple, þat is to say, fro þat nounb {r} e þat is ten tymes so mych is þe nounb {re} þ {a} t comes of þe m {u} ltiplicacioɳ.”
“The truth simply is that if some remedy be not soon found for the situation created by these people, who are as stupid as they are mischievous, in a few years we shall be obliged either to decuple the gendarmerie, or to allow every citizen to go about armed with a revolver, in order to protect himself against our much too liberally emancipated young scolos! ”
“But as the Franks established only a decuple proportion of gold and silver, ten shillings will be”
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3
“But as the Franks established only a decuple proportion of gold and silver, ten shillings will be a sufficient valuation of their solidus of gold.”
“Hence it appears, that Cyphers put on the Right - hand of whole Numbers, do increafe the Value of thofe Numbers in a decuple (or ten-fold) Proportion:”
“[[written cubik {e} ...]] +decuple+, 22/12; the product of a number by ten.”
“C {er} ten þ {ere} wel be vj vnitees by-twene 4 & ten. yf þ {o} u reken þ {ere} w {i} t {h} þe ten þe vnite, as þou may se. so mony tymes take 2. out of his decuple, þe quych is 20. for 20 is þe decuple of 2, 10 is þe decuple of 1, 30 is þe decuple of 3, 40 is þe decuple of”
“And, en (he contrary, thoMn whole Numbers, Cyphers pre - fixed before them, do neither increafe nor diminilb the Value; yet Cyphers before a decimal Fraction do diminiih its Value in a decuple Proportion: For .25, if yon prefix a Cypher before it, becomes t%%'o oc”
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hernesheir Based upon the 10-root dec-, as in decade. Not to be confused with decouple. Dec 14, 2011