Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Consisting of four parts or members.
- adj. Four times as much in size, strength, number, or amount.
- adj. Music Having four beats to the measure.
- n. A fourfold amount or number.
- v. To multiply or be multiplied by four: quadrupled the order; quadrupled in size.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Fourfold; four times told.
- n. A number, sum, etc., four times as great as that taken as the standard: as, to receive the quadruple of a given sum.
- To make four times as much or as many; multiply by four; repeat four times; make, do, or cause to happen four times over.
- To become four times as much or as many; repeat itself four times.
- Consisting of four parts; completed in four separate or successive operations.
Wiktionary
- adj. Being four times as long, as big or as many of something.
- v. To multiply something by four times.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Fourfold.
- n. four times the sum or number; a fourfold amount.
- v. To multiply by four; to increase fourfold; to double; to double twice.
- v. To be multiplied by four; to increase fourfold; to become four times as much.
WordNet 3.0
- v. increase fourfold
- adj. having four units or components
- n. a quantity that is four times as great as another
- n. a set of four similar things considered as a unit
- adj. four times as great or many
Etymologies
- 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. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“She loves to enjoy what she calls a quadruple draught.”
“Citizen Holdings gained 0.2% on a Nikkei report that the watch maker's April-September group operating profit was expected to quadruple from a year earlier to around seven billion yen ($84.3 million).”
“Huckabee granted clemency to suspect in quadruple ...”
Mayor Giuliani, it was Dick Cheney who cut our armed forces by 20%, not Bill Clinton
“Matt Hughes, Wyatt Allen, J. Sloan DuRoss and Sam Stitt rowed to bronze in quadruple sculls, which had no heats or semifinals.”
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“Fifth in quadruple sculls at 2001 World Championships.”
“What do you call a quadruple amputee in the hot tub?”
“What do you call a quadruple amputee on the floor?”
“But by what I have heard since I came home, his patience is -- as she says by her own with reference to the white 'quadruple' -- well nigh exhausted.”
“This was not surprising considering it is a day known as quadruple witching, which signifies the concurrent expiration of stock index futures, stock index options, stock options and single stock futures.”
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bilby "Yields for plants fertilized with urine quadrupled and matched those of mineral-fertilized plants. The urine-fertilized tomatoes also contained more protein and were safe for human consumption."
- Wagdy Sawahel, Tomatoes thrive on urine diet, enn.com, 10 Sep 2009. Sep 13, 2009