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QUADRUPLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does quadruple mean?
• QUADRUPLE (noun)
The noun QUADRUPLE has 2 senses:
1. a set of four similar things considered as a unit
2. a quantity that is four times as great as another
Familiarity information: QUADRUPLE used as a noun is rare.
• QUADRUPLE (adjective)
The adjective QUADRUPLE has 2 senses:
1. having four units or components
2. four times as great or many
Familiarity information: QUADRUPLE used as an adjective is rare.
• QUADRUPLE (verb)
The verb QUADRUPLE has 1 sense:
1. increase fourfold
Familiarity information: QUADRUPLE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A set of four similar things considered as a unit
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
quadruple; quadruplet; quartet; quartette
Hypernyms ("quadruple" is a kind of...):
set (a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A quantity that is four times as great as another
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("quadruple" is a kind of...):
multiple (the product of a quantity by an integer)
Derivation:
quadruple (increase fourfold)
quadruplicate (reproduce fourfold)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having four units or components
Synonyms:
four-fold; fourfold; quadruple; quadruplex; quadruplicate
Context example:
quadruplex wire
Similar:
multiple (having or involving or consisting of more than one part or entity or individual)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Four times as great or many
Synonyms:
four-fold; fourfold; quadruple
Context example:
a fourfold increase in the dosage
Similar:
multiple (having or involving or consisting of more than one part or entity or individual)
| Conjugation: |
... he / she / it quadruples Past simple: quadrupled
Past participle: quadrupled
-ing form: quadrupling
Sense 1
Meaning:
Increase fourfold
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
His stock earning quadrupled
Hypernyms (to "quadruple" is one way to...):
manifold; multiply (combine or increase by multiplication)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sentence examples:
They quadruple their earnings this year
Their earnings quadruple this year
Derivation:
quadruple (a quantity that is four times as great as another)
quadruplicate (any four copies; any of four things that correspond to one another exactly)
quadrupling (increase by a factor of four)
Context examples
In the omega-3 group, mean EPA levels quadrupled versus no change in the placebo group.
(Omega-3s from fish oil supplements no better than placebo for dry eye, National Institutes of Health)
Dead zones – where oxygen is effectively absent – have quadrupled in extent in the last half-century, and there are also at least 700 areas where oxygen is at dangerously low levels, up from 45 when research was undertaken in the 1960s.
(Oceans running out of oxygen at unprecedented rate, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
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