quadruplicate

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This Convention to be in quadruplicate, two copies being in possession of the Colonial Government, and two copies in possession of the Basuto chiefs.

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  1. adjective Multiplied by four; quadruple.
  2. adjective Fourth in a group of four identical things.
  3. noun One of a group of four identical things.
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  • To validate these potential INK4a regulators, a subset of the top activators was re-assayed in quadruplicate, and screened against the promoterless luciferase reporter backbone (pGL3) to eliminate nonspecific activators. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Complex insurance forms need to be filled out in quadruplicate. —  Messenger News
  • "We developed an in vitro protein expression and interaction analysis platform based on a highly parallel and sensitive microfluidic affinity assay, and used it for 14,792 on-chip experiments, which exhaustively measured the protein-protein interactions of 43 Streptococcus pneumoniae proteins in quadruplicate." —  Life blog
  • The online business in India has a scope to quadruplicate itself in 2 years. —  www.indiantelevision.com
  • RT-PCR was performed to measure transcript levels of human TNFα in quadruplicate. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
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  1. Latin quadruplicātus, past participle of quadruplicāre, to multiply by four, from quadruplex, fourfold : quadru-, quadri-, quadri- + -plex, -fold; see duplex.

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  1. from Latin quadruplicatus, past participle of quadruplicare (later Old French quadruplier, quadrupliquer), make fourfold, from quadruplex, fourfold: see quadruplex.
  2. Also quadriplicate; from Latin quadruplicatus, make fourfold: see the verb.
 

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