quadruple

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  1. adjective Consisting of four parts or members.
  2. adjective Four times as much in size, strength, number, or amount.
  3. adjective Music Having four beats to the measure.
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  • The Family knowledge will double, quadruple, the wisdom will not be lost. —  I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC! - Ray Bradbury
  • If you're looking for a quadruple-double on a given night, The Dream and Nate Thurmond are your men. —  Sports Central | Articles and Columns
  • To find the number for other digits, you start with the digit you want to find and instead of doubling, you triple, quadruple, quintuple, etc. —  TierneyLab
  • But he hold that mark for just six months until Brian Lara posted the first quadruple-century in Test history. —  India eNews
  • The script is smart and filled with seeming double, triple and [potentially] quadruple-crosses. —  EclipseMagazine
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  1. From Middle English quadriple, fourfold amount, and quadruple, tooth with four roots, both from Old French quadruple, from Latin quadruplum, from neuter of quadruplus, fourfold : quadru-, quadri-, quadri- + -plus, -fold; see pel-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from French quadruple = Spanish cuádruplo = Portuguese Italian quadruplo, from Latin quadruplus. fourfold, quadruplum, a fourfold quantity, from quattuor (quadru-), = English four, + -plus, -fold: see -fold.
  2. from French quadrupler, from Late Latin quadruplare, make fourfold, from Latin quadruplus, fourfold: see quadruple, adjective
 

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