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▪ I. quadruplicate, a. and n.|kwəˈdruːplɪkət|
[ad. L. quadruplicāt-us, pa. pple. of quadruplicāre to quadruple, f. quadruplex: see prec.]
A. adj.
1. Fourfold; four times repeated. quadruplicate proportion, quadruplicate ratio, the proportion or ratio of fourth powers in relation to that of the radical quantities.
1657Hobbes Absurd Geom. Wks. 1845 VII. 378 An infinite row of Arithmetically proportionals, in proportion quadruplicate. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. III. xxxi. 269 The efforts tending to destroy the adhesion of beams from their gravity only, increase in the quadruplicate ratio of their lengths. 1816Playfair Nat. Phil. II. 169 The same [probability] is increased in a quadruplicate ratio, from considering the phenomena of all these four superior planets.
2. Forming four exactly corresponding copies.
1807Pike Sources Mississ. iii. App. (1810) 72, I have directed the formula for you to sign of four corresponding quadruplicate receipts.
B. n.
1. in quadruplicate: In four exactly corresponding copies or transcripts.
1790W. Hastings Let. to Boswell 2 Dec. in B.'s Johnson an. 1781 Of these [letters], one which was written in quadruplicate..has already been made publick. 1900Rules (25 Oct.) under Money-Lenders Act vi, The order shall be signed in quadruplicate by the permanent Secretary.
fig.1886Kipling Departm. Ditties, etc. (1899) 47 Four times Cupid's debtor I—Bankrupt in quadruplicate.
2. pl. Four things exactly alike; esp. four exactly corresponding copies of a document.
1883Sir C. S. C. Bowen in Law Rep. 11 Q. Bench Div. 342 The..conveniences which merchants..believed to be afforded by the system of triplicates or quadruplicates.
▪ II. quadruplicate, v.|kwəˈdruːplɪkeɪt|
[f. ppl. stem of L. quadruplicāre: see prec.]
1. trans. To multiply by four; to make four times as many or as great; to quadruple.
1661in Blount Glossogr. (ed. 2). 1674S. Jeake Arith. (1696) 56 Or else duplicate,..quadruplicate, &c. the Fraction according to the given Integer. 1694Salmon Bate's Dispens. (1713) 327/2 Sometimes the Proportion is to be quadruplicated. 1861Under the Spell III. 220 Prices ‘were ‘ quadruplicated’,’ the demand for places being great. 1888G. W. Cable in Amer. Missionary Apr. 90 If you knew the national value of this work,..you would quadruplicate it before the year is out.
2. To make or provide in quadruplicate; to provide four (things) exactly alike.
1879G. Meredith Egoist III. iii. 64 We are in danger of duplicating and triplicating and quadruplicating [wedding presents].
Hence quaˈdruplicating vbl. n. (Ash Suppl. 1775). |