decupleadj.n.
/ˈdɛkjuːp(ə)l/ A. adj.
Ten times as much; tenfold.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > ten > [adjective] > tenfold
tenfoldc1200
decuple1613
decemplex-
?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) i. l. 495 in Shorter Poems (1967) 38 Duplat, triplat, diatesseriall, Sesque altra, and decupla resortis.]
1613 M. Ridley Short Treat. Magneticall Bodies 87 Sometimes decuple or ten times as much againe.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 192 Man, whose length..is sextuple unto his breadth..and decuple unto his profundity. View more context for this quotation
1771 M. Raper in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 61 534 Reckoning..the value of gold decuple that of silver.
1817 H. T. Colebrooke tr. Bhāskara Āchārya in Algebra 4 Increasing regularly in decuple proportion.
1843 Fraser's Mag. 27 461 Double, treble, and more than decuple the amount.
B. n.
A number or quantity ten times another; a tenfold amount.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > ten > [noun] > tenfold amount
decuple?c1425
?c1425 Crafte Nombrynge in R. Steele Earliest Arithm. in Eng. (1922) 22 20 is þe decuple of 2, 10 is þe decuple of 1.
1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 7 If the same Proportion holds..(that is, as I guess, near a Decuple).
1864 E. B. Pusey Daniel 623 During a period of years, which was to be a decuple of their own number.
1885 Times 12 Dec. 9/5 To abolish one or two of the doubles, trebles, and decuples which afflict postmen and cabmen [in street nomenclature].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
decuplev.
/ˈdɛkjuːp(ə)l/ transitive. To increase or multiply tenfold.
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the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > perform arithmetic or algebraic operations [verb (transitive)] > multiply > a particular number of times
decuplea1687
decuplate1690
a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1691) i. 9 If France hath scarce doubled its Wealth and Power, and that the other have decupled theirs.
a1690 S. Jeake Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 201 The Square of 1 decupled is 10.
1837 T. P. Thompson Lett. Representative 2nd Ser. 58 If the demand for muscle were decupled at every commercial and manufacturing station.
Derivatives
ˈdecupled adj.
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the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > [adjective] > multiple > multiplied > a certain number of times
swilka1400
decuplate1690
decupled1854
1854 H. H. Wilson tr. Rig-veda II. 5 To partake of the decupled (libation).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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