quadruplicate
English
Etymology
From Latin quadruplicatus.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌkwɑˈdɹuːplɪkət/
Adjective
quadruplicate (not comparable)
- having four parts
- 1903: H.G. Wells, Mankind in the Making
- The small schools might specialize upon the type locally most desirable, the larger might group its triplicate (or quadruplicate) system of sustained and serious courses about a common Library […]
- 1903: H.G. Wells, Mankind in the Making
- four times over, multiplied by four
- 1891: Rudyard Kipling, American Notes
- […] Fortune, who delights in making the miner or the lumber-man a quadruplicate millionaire and in "busting" the railroad king.
- 1891: Rudyard Kipling, American Notes
Noun
quadruplicate (plural quadruplicates)
- in quadruplicate: four times over, in four copies
- c.1886: Rudyard Kipling, The Lovers' Litany
- Four times Cupid's debtor I-- / Bankrupt in quadruplicate.
- c.1886: Rudyard Kipling, The Lovers' Litany
Verb
quadruplicate (third-person singular simple present quadruplicates, present participle quadruplicating, simple past and past participle quadruplicated)
- To replicate four times; to make fourfold; to quadruple.
See also
- triplicate
- duplicate
Italian
Verb
quadruplicate
- second-person plural present indicative of quadruplicare
- second-person plural imperative of quadruplicare
- feminine plural of quadruplicato
Latin
Verb
quadruplicāte
- first-person plural present active imperative of quadruplicō