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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 unitplay

2. a quantity that is four times as great as anotherplay

  Familiarity information: QUADRUPLE used as a noun is rare.


QUADRUPLE (adjective)
  The adjective QUADRUPLE has 2 senses:

1. having four units or componentsplay

2. four times as great or manyplay

  Familiarity information: QUADRUPLE used as an adjective is rare.


QUADRUPLE (verb)
  The verb QUADRUPLE has 1 sense:

1. increase fourfoldplay

  Familiarity information: QUADRUPLE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


QUADRUPLE (noun)


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)


QUADRUPLE (adjective)


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)


QUADRUPLE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they quadruple  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it quadruples  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: quadrupled  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: quadrupled  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: quadrupling  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


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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