Crossword clues for quadruple
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quadruple \Quad"ru*ple\, v. i. To be multiplied by four; to increase fourfold; to become four times as much.
Quadruple \Quad"ru*ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Quadrupled; p.
pr. & vb. n. Quadrupling.] [L. quadruplare: cf. F.
quadrupler.]
To multiply by four; to increase fourfold; to double; to
double twice.
--A. Smith.
Quadruple \Quad"ru*ple\, n. [Cf. F. quadruple, L. quadruplum.] four times the sum or number; a fourfold amount; as, to receive to quadruple of the amount in damages.
Quadruple \Quad"ru*ple\, a. [L. quadruplus, from quattuor four: cf. F. quadruple. See Quadrate, and cf. Double.] Fourfold; as, to make quadruple restitution; a quadruple alliance.
Quadruple time (Mus.), that in which each measure is divided into four equal parts.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Middle French quadrupler, from Late Latin quadruplare "make fourfold, multiply by four," from Latin quadruplus (adj.) "quadruple, fourfold" (see quadruple (adj.)).
1550s, from Middle French quadruple (13c.), from Latin quadruplus "fourfold," from quadri- "four" (see quadru-) + -plus "-fold" (see -plus).
Wiktionary
Being four times as long, as big or as many of something. v
1 (context transitive English) To multiply by four. 2 (context intransitive English) To increase by a factor of four.
WordNet
adj. having four units or components; "quadruple rhythm has four beats per measure"; "quadruplex wire" [syn: quadruplicate, quadruplex, fourfold]
four times as great or many; "a fourfold increase in the dosage" [syn: fourfold]
n. a quantity that is four times as great as another
v. increase fourfold; "His stock earning quadrupled"
Wikipedia
Quadruple may refer to:
- A 4-tuple, an ordered list of elements, with four elements
- Quadruple (computing), an term used as alternative for nibble in some contexts
- A term for winning four football trophies
- Quad (figure skating), a figure skating jump
- A home run in baseball
- Quadruple-precision floating-point format in computing
- A multiple birth with four offspring
Usage examples of "quadruple".
They thought it equally absurd and sinful for a man to carry his income on his back, and bedizen himself out in reds, blues, and greens, ribbons, knots, slashes, and treble quadruple daedalian ruffs, built up on iron and timber, which have more arches in them for pride than London Bridge for use.
He did quadruple and quintuple integration, even quadruple integration between varying exponential limitsin his head.
He did quadruple and quintuple integration, even quadruple integration between varying exponential limits-in his head.
Did its being forbidden make a threepenny beefsteak suddenly quadruple in worth?
The way I look at it, the bees could quadruple in numbers by the end of the summer if the weather stays hot.
I was teaching her to double, to triple, and to quadruple the cabalistic combinations.
Drop the temperature by ten degrees Celsius, and you quadruple the cooking time.
I had a bit of money put by and here was the chance to go into hops with the certainty that hops would quadruple and quintuple in price inside the year.
I was greatly touched when the worthy man slipped into my hands a rouleau, telling me it contained twelve quadruples, which I could repay at my convenience.
And the flakpanzers, moving forward and risking their thin plating to hose their quadruple 20mm autocannon over the village, short bursts that hit like horizontal explosive hailstorms.
Everyone flinched as it soared ceilingward, emitting a miniature sonic boom and exploding in size until it had tripled, quadrupled its dimensions.
Mitau, by which, with the assistance of a manager and four men, you can assure yourself a revenue of a thousand ducats a week, and double, and quadruple that sum, if your highness chooses to increase the men and the furnaces.
By the time Christopher was seven, the Tofranil had been stopped and the dosage of Ritalin quadrupled.
The spell's power to attract tedious, rambling, unstoppable chitchat was quadrupled when it detected that its victim was in an escape-proof situation, such as a moving vehicle of any kind.
Her confidence moved my pity, so I took a gold quadruple from my purse and offered it to her.