quadruple
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
quadruple (not comparable)
- Being four times as long, as big or as many of something.
- He's quite an athlete and can do quadruple jumps with ease.
- quarter (divided into four; one of four equal parts)
- German: vierfach
- Italian: quadruplice, quadruplo
- Portuguese: quádruplo
- Russian: четверно́й
- Spanish: cuádruple
quadruple (quadruples, present participle quadrupling; past quadrupled, past participle quadrupled)
- (transitive) To multiply by four.
- Quadrupling four gives sixteen.
- (intransitive) To increase by a factor of four.
- Our profits quadrupled when we made the improvements.
- (rail) To provide four parallel running lines on a given stretch of railway.
- quarter (divide by four)
- German: vervierfachen
- Italian: quadruplicare
- Russian: учетверять
- Spanish: cuadruplicar
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