What is "octuplicate"

Usage examples of "octuplicate".

Now the movements of nations have become like a huge slow solemn dance of the elephants, random power swaying in unpredictable directions, their movements obscured by a stifling rain of paper, pastel forms in octuplicate, programmed tapes, punch cards.

If given a free hand they will think up so marry interlocking relationships and lines of authority and committees, and ordain so many committee meetings and consultations and memoranda in octuplicate, that the organization will be paralyzed by sheer complexity.