Quadruple
WordNet
adjective
(1) Four times as great or many
"A fourfold increase in the dosage"
(2) Having four units or components
"Quadruple rhythm has four beats per measure"
"Quadruplex wire"
noun
(3) A quantity that is four times as great as another
(4) A set of four similar things considered as a unit
verb
(5) Increase fourfold
"His stock earning quadrupled"
WiktionaryText
Adjective
quadruple
- Being four times as long, as big or as many of something.
- He's quite an athlete and can do quadruple jumps with ease.
Verb
- To multiply something by four times.
- Our profits quadrupled when we made the improvements.
Adjective
- Which is repeated four times.
- Ils sont entrés dans l'histoire du patinage artistique en exécutant un quadruple salto, une première en couple.
- Which is equal to four times, or the fourth power of another value.
- En musique, une quadruple croche est égale au huitième (½4) d'une noire.
- La Quadruple-Alliance de 1834 était une alliance offensive et défensive formée entre le Royaume-Uni, la France, la Belgique et l'Espagne.
Noun
- Something that is equal to four times something else.
- Je veux le quadruple de la prime normale.
- A move whose score is multiplied by four.
- Ce tirage permettait permettait plusieurs quadruples.
- J'ai perdu une douzaine de points sur un difficile "mosaique" en quadruple.
- The area on the board where such a move is possible.
- Le quadruple en colonne 5 reste ouvert avec la séquence "ena" ou "ene".
Verb
quadruple