quadruple

quadruple

See also: quadruplé

English

English numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: four     Ordinal: fourth     Latinate ordinal: quartary, quaternary     Adverbial: four times     Multiplier: fourfold     Latinate multiplier: quadruple     Distributive: quadruply     Collective: foursome     Multiuse collective: quadruplet     Greek or Latinate collective: tetrad     Greek collective prefix: tetra-, tessera-     Latinate collective prefix: quadri-     Fractional: quarter, fourth     Latinate fractional prefix: quadrant-     Elemental: quadruplet     Greek prefix: tetarto-     Number of musicians: quartet     Number of years: quadrennium, olympiad

Etymology

From Middle English quadruple, from Latin quadruplus. Can be analyzed as quadri- +‎ -ple.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkwɒd.ɹʊ.pəl/, /kwɒˈdɹuː.pəl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kwɑˈdɹu.pəl/, /kwɑˈdɹʌp.əl/, /ˈkwɑd.ɹə.pəl/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -uːpəl

Adjective

quadruple (not comparable)

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

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

Antonyms

• quarter (divided into four; one of four equal parts)

Translations

being four times as long, as big or as many of something

Bulgarian: четворен (četvoren), учетворен (učetvoren) Catalan: quàdruple Danish: firedobbelt Dutch: viervoud (nl) Finnish: nelinkertainen Georgian: ოთხმაგი (otxmagi), ოთხკეცი (otxḳeci) German: vierfach (de) Hindi: चहुरा (hi) m (cahurā), चौघरा (hi) m (caughrā), पाव (hi) m (pāv), चौगुना (hi) (caugunā) Hungarian: négyszer akkora/annyi Ido: quaropla (io) Interlingua: quadruple Irish: ceathrúil Italian: quadruplice, quadruplo (it) Japanese: 四倍 (よんばい yombai), 四重 (よえ yoe, しじゅう shijū) Latin: quadruplus, quadruplex (la) Norwegian: firedobbelt, kvadruppelt Polish: poczwórny (pl) Portuguese: quádruplo (pt) Romanian: cvadruplu (ro) Russian: четверно́й (ru) (četvernój) Spanish: cuádruple (es) Swedish: fyrdubbel (sv), fyrfaldig (sv), kvadrupel (sv) Welsh: pedwarplyg m

Verb

quadruple (third-person singular simple present quadruples, present participle quadrupling, simple past and past participle quadrupled)

1. (transitive) To multiply by four.

   Quadrupling four gives sixteen.

2. (intransitive) To increase by a factor of four.

   Our profits quadrupled when we made the improvements.

3. (rail transport) To provide four parallel running lines on a given stretch of railway.
   • 2019 October, “Railtalk: HS2 delay - time for lateral thinking”, in Modern Railways, page 7:

     Quadrupling the short remaining stretch of three-track railway north of Rugby, left over by the turn of the century modernisation, is a possibility that could be pursued.

   • 2020 April 22, Paul Shannon, “Felixstowe: Is 47 trains a day achievable?”, in Rail, page 52:

     A long-term aspiration is to quadruple the cross-country route between Peterborough and Werrington Junction, removing any conflict between trains on the Spalding and Leicester lines.

Antonyms

• quarter (divide by four)

Derived terms

• quadruplet

Translations

to multiply by four

Bulgarian: учетворявам (učetvorjavam) Dutch: verviervoudigen Finnish: nelinkertaistaa Georgian: გაოთხმაგება (gaotxmageba), გაოთხკეცება (gaotxḳeceba) German: vervierfachen (de) Hungarian: négyszerez, megnégyszerez Interlingua: quadruplicar Italian: quadruplicare (it) Japanese: 四倍する (yombai suru) Latin: quadruplicō Maori: whakareawhā Norwegian: firedoble, kvadruple Polish: poczworzyć (pl) pf, poczwarzać impf Russian: учетверять (ru) (učetverjatʹ) Spanish: cuadruplicar (es) Swedish: fyrdubbla (sv)

(intransitive) to increase by a factor of four

Hindi: चौगुना (hi) (caugunā) Hungarian: megnégyszereződik (hu), négyszeresére nő

Noun

quadruple (plural quadruples)

1. Something that is four times the usual number, amount, size, etc.
2. (skating) A figure-skating jump with four revolutions in the air.

   Synonym: quad

See also

Number	1	2	3	4	5
Modifier	single	double / twofold	triple / threefold	quadruple / fourfold	quintuple / pentuple / fivefold
Whole	loner / singleton / monad	pair / couple / twosome / dyad	trio / threesome / triad / troika	foursome / tetrad	fivesome
Part	only one / singlet	twin / one of two / doublet	triplet / one of three	quadruplet / one of four	quintuplet / pentuplet / one of five
Number	6	7	8	9	10
Modifier	sextuple / hextuple / sixfold	septuple / heptuple / sevenfold	octuple / eightfold	ninefold / nonuple	tenfold / decuple
Whole	sixsome	sevensome	eightsome	ninesome	tensome / decad
Part	sextuplet / hextuplet / one of six	one of seven / septuplet / heptuplet	octuplet / one of eight	one of nine / nonuplet	one of ten / decuplet
Number	11	12	13	100	many
Modifier	elevenfold / undecuple / hendecuple	twelvefold / duodecuple	thirteenfold / tredecuple	a hundredfold / centuple	multiple
Whole	elevensome	twelvesome	thirteensome	hundredsome
Part	one of eleven / undecuplet / hendecuplet	one of twelve / duodecuplet	one of thirteen / tredecuplet	one of a hundred / centuplet	one of many / multiplet

Further reading

• quadruple in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• quadruple in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

Anagrams

• quadrupel

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin quadruplus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.dʁypl/, /kwa.dʁypl/

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Adjective

French numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: quatre     Ordinal: quatrième     Ordinal abbreviation: 4e, (nonstandard) 4ème     Multiplier: quadruple     Fractional: quart
French Wikipedia article on 4

quadruple (plural quadruples)

1. quadruple

   Ils sont entrés dans l'histoire du patinage artistique en exécutant un quadruple salto, une première en couple.

   la Quadruple Alliance ― the Quadruple Alliance

2. (music) sixty-fourth note

   une quadruple croche ― a sixty-fourth note

Noun

quadruple m (plural quadruples)

1. something that is equal to four times something else

   Je veux le quadruple de la prime normale.

2. (Scrabble) a move whose score is multiplied by four

   Ce tirage permettait permettait plusieurs quadruples.

   J'ai perdu une douzaine de points sur un difficile "mosaique" en quadruple.

3. (Scrabble) the area on the board where such a move is possible

   Le quadruple en colonne 5 reste ouvert avec la séquence "ena" ou "ene".

Related terms

• nonuple

Verb

quadruple

1. inflection of quadrupler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “quadruple”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Adjective

quadruple f pl

1. feminine plural of quadruplo

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Latin

Adjective

quadruple

1. vocative masculine singular of quadruplus