quadruplen.adj.adv.

Brit.

/ˈkwɒdrᵿpl/,

/kwɒˈdruːpl/,

/kwəˈdruːpl/, U.S.

/kwɑˈdrup(ə)l/,

/kwəˈdrup(ə)l/,

/kwɑˈdrəp(ə)l/,

/kwəˈdrəp(ə)l/

Forms: late Middle English–1500s quadriple, late Middle English– quadruple, 1500s quadripulle, 1600s–1700s quadruble; Scottish pre-1700 quadrapull, pre-1700 quadripill, pre-1700 quadrouple, pre-1700 quadrupill, pre-1700 1700s– quadruple.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French quadruple; Latin quadruplus.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French quadruple, Middle French quadruble (French quadruple ) fourfold, (as noun) fourfold amount (both 13th cent.), lateral incisor tooth (1480), type of gold coin, either a Spanish double pistole or a French coin worth four écus (1594) and its etymon classical Latin quadruplus (adjective) four times as great or as much, also quadruplum (noun) quantity four times as great or as much, fourfold penalty (use as noun of neuter of quadruplus ), also post-classical Latin quadruplus (noun) incisor tooth (from 13th cent. in British sources; 1363 in the passage translated in quot. ?a1425 at sense A. 1; use as noun (short for dēns quadruplus incisor tooth) of masculine of quadruplus ) < quadru- quadru- comb. form + -plus (in e.g. duplus double adj.¹). Compare earlier quatreble adj., and also quatreble n., quadruple v.The reason for the name in sense A. 1 (in Latin and hence in French and English) is unclear.

A. n.

†1. A lateral incisor tooth. Obsolete. rare.In humans there are four incisor teeth in each jaw; the two middle incisors were formerly called duals (see dual n. 2).

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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > types or spec. teeth > [noun] > with quadruple root

quadruple?a1425

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 46 Þanne in þe ouer ieawe ben sextene teeþ, foure þat hatte quadruply & pares, keruers.]

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 12^v Þai [sc. teeth] bene, forsoþ, as most ofte 32, s. 16 in euery chawel, þof al in somme men, þer ben noȝt founden bot 28, viz. 2 dualez, 2 quadruples [L. quadrupli], & 2 caininez, 8 molarez, & 2 casales.

?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Fj^v Two douales, two quadruples .viij. molares, and two cassalles.

1577 Vicary's Profitable Treat. Anat. sig. F.iii^v They that haue the whole number haue .xxxij. that is to say .xvj. aboue, and as many beneath, as thus, two Dwallies, two Quadripulles, two Cannines, [etc.].

2. A fourfold number or amount; a quantity four times as great as another. Also: a set of four things or parts.

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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > four > [noun] > multiplication by four > four times as much

fourfoldc1380

quadruplec1425

quatreble1429

quadruplate1980

c1425 tr. J. Arderne Treat. Fistula (Sloane 6) (1910) 30 (MED) Of alle þise herbes, if þou may haue þam, take euen porcion, outtake of wodebynde, of whiche, if it may be hadde, be taken þe triple or quadriple.

1545 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1908) VIII. 365 Pryces sett doun to the gryit seall to be takin heirefter for all sick infeftmentis and wreatis as passis that seale: that the keipare of the gryite seale exceide not the quadrupill off the previe seale.

1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus 61 Now if we place these Triples..in the vpper ranke we shall produce Quadruples.

1640 in J. Nicholson Minute Bk. War Comm. Covenanters Kirkcudbright 29 Dec. (1855) 149 The quadruple of the pryce of the inch of the best sort of schoes.

1695 Sc. Acts Will. III (1822) IX. c. 55. 453/1 Incurring the Quadruples appoynted by the said Act by way of penalty.

1705 E. Scarburgh Eng. Euclide 41 For in the naming Double and Half, who does not presently conceive the same evident truth in Triples, Quadruples, Quintuples.

a1770 T. Chatterton Compl. Wks. (1971) I. 515 To fill up places by preferment void, Is Dyson by the Quadruples employ'd.

1822 J. Flint Lett. from Amer. 309 I believe, if he had laid them [sc. the damages] at quadruple, the jury would have given him every cent.

1865 D. G. Mitchell Wet days at Edgewood 73 The bill of costs, which has grown into a quadruple of the original estimates.

1922 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 23 July 13/3 The piping is being backed off in singles, doubles, triples, or quadruples.

1965 Jrnl. Near Eastern Stud. 24 276 One thousand and two hundred deva years is the fourth division of the cycle, and its double is the third division, and its triple is the second, and its quadruple is the first.

1992 S. P. Maran Astron. & Astrophysics Encycl. 52/1 Triples consist of a close pair [of stars] with a wide companion, quadruples of two widely separated close pairs, and so on.

3. A coin of the value of four pistoles (see pistole n.). Now historical.

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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > Italian or Sicilian coins

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julioa1549

zecchino1572

chequina1587

mocenigo1599

soldo1599

quattrino1605

gazet1607

lira1617

paolo1617

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julet1632

betso1641

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pentecontalitron1738

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crazia1805

centesimo1840

1655 tr. C. Sorel Comical Hist. Francion xii. 15 See here his Quadruples which I never touched before.

1673 J. Dryden Amboyna ii. 17 No transitory Sum, three hundred Quadruples in your own Countrey Gold.

1720 J. Steuart Let.-bk. (1915) 126 Nine quadruples of Spanish gold, and two guineas.

1830 Times 6 Aug. 2/5 Some were full of quadruples, some of sequins of Venice, others contained a mixture of gold coin.

1849 Sandusky (Ohio) Clarion 28 May Here are thirty quadruples, which I am willing to lose.

1947 A. R. Frey Dict. Numismatic Terms 77/1 Ecu Pistolet, a gold coin of Geneva issued from about 1562 to 1585... A larger gold coin of the same type but struck in the following century was known as the Quadruple.

4. A printing machine which prints four copies at once. Now historical.

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society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > [noun] > printing four copies at once

quadruple1890

1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 203 It was Mr. Lloyd who had the first of these new Quadruples at work on a London daily newspaper.

1906 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 19 Nov. 1/1 (advt.) The Tribune now has two perfecting presses running side by side... One is a Goss sextuple of the latest model and the other a Hoe quadruple.

1993 Hobart (Tasmania) Mercury (Nexis) 13 Feb. Mercury presses over the years..April 1924: London-built Hoe quadruple.

B. adj.

1. Four times as many or as much, fourfold (formerly with of, to). Also: consisting of four parts or things.

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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > four > [adjective] > fourfold

fourfoldc1000

quatreblea1398

quadruplate?a1505

four-double1527

quadruple1557

quadruplex1606

quadrupled1607

quadruplicate1654

quadrifariousa1745

quaternate1753

quadriplicate1890

tetraplous1899

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > four > [adjective] > four times as much

quatreblea1398

quadruplate?a1505

quadruple1557

quadrupled1607

1557 R. Record Whetstone of Witte sig. Bi^v If it containe it .4. tymes, then is it [sc. the proportion] quadrupla, or quadruple.

1580 J. Baret (title) An alvearie or quadruple dictionarie, containing foure sundrie tongues: namelie English, Latine, Greeke, and French.

1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie iii. x. 153 A law that..doth punish theues with a quadruple restitution.

1628 J. Mede Let. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. III. 268 The quadruple strength which they have prepared against our fleet.

a1648 Ld. Herbert Life Henry VIII (1649) 9 Such as might be thought effectively quadruple to so much in this Age.

1721 P. Delany in J. Swift Wks. (1765) XIII. 367 How I joy to see thee wander..In circling mazes, smooth and supple, And ending in a clink quadruple.

1807 C. Hutton Course Math. (ed. 5) II. 269 To receive light and heat quadruple to that of the earth.

1825 T. B. Macaulay Machiavelli in Ess. (1887) 34 When the value of silver was more than quadruple of what it now is.

1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 576 Single, triple, or quadruple concentric series of narrow elements.

1925 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 127 2031 We have now succeeded in identifying a group capable of quadruple attachment to metallic atoms.

1940 G. Jacob Orchestral Technique (ed. 2) i. 3 Some very fully scored modern symphonic and operatic works employ quadruple woodwind.

1994 N.Y. Times 20 Feb. viii. 1/4 Unwilling to take any big risks, Urmanov left out his trademark quadruple toe jump.

2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 7 Sept. iv. 2/4 Slamball?.. Two teams of four players each use trampolines..to soar and dunk—with quadruple the hang time of a pro basketball player.

2. Printing. Of printing paper: four times the usual size. More commonly abbreviated to quad (see quad adj.¹ 1).

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1866 Times 17 Apr. 15/7 (advt.) Also, 145 reams quadruple foolscap, 48lb. to 73lb.

1890 Cent. Dict. Quadruple-crown, a size of printing paper, 30 × 40 inches.

1938 L. M. Harrod Librarians' Gloss. 137 Sheets of paper bearing the same size name can be in double (‘double’) or quadruple (‘quad’) size.

C. adv.

To four times the amount or extent; in four ways or respects; quadruply.

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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > four > [adverb] > four times as much

fourfold1535

quadruply1599

quadruple1841

1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xli. 169 Places of distrust and cruelty, and restraint, they would have left quadruple-locked for ever.

1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 62/1 Blundell's Patent Duplex (quadruple acting) portable Fire Engines.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvii. [Ithaca] 682 A rectangular trunk, quadruple battened, having capped corners..initialled on its fore side in white lettering B. C. T.

1986 D. Hogan New Shirt ii. 125 Phineas was darning double, triple and quadruple coloured socks.

1995 Racing Post 14 July 63/3 The Welsh wizard then double-bogeyed and quadruple-bogeyed the next two holes to fall off the leaderboard.

Compounds

quadruple algebra n. Mathematics (now historical) algebra in which four independent units are used (which may only be added together formally).

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1870 B. Peirce Linear Associative Algebra 7 An algebra, which has only one letter in its alphabet is a single algebra; one which has two letters is a double algebra, one of three letters, a triple algebra; one of four letters, a quadruple algebra and so on.

1898 J. Hammond Let. 22 Dec. Hamilton's Quaternions is a quadruple algebra, the 4 independent units being his i, j, k, and the unit of quantity.

1967 Isis 58 95 A discussion of 19th-century development of 2 types of multiple algebra, quaternions (quadruple algebra), and vector analysis (triple algebra).

Quadruple Alliance n. an alliance of four powers, spec. (a) that of Britain, France, the Holy Roman Emperor, and the Netherlands in 1718; (b) that of Britain, France, Spain, and Portugal in 1834; also in extended use.

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1705 D. Jones Compl. Hist. Europe 1704 451 The Quadruple Alliance which is in Agitation to be concluded [sc. between England, Prussia, Denmark, and the Netherlands] in favour of the City [sc. Danzig], shall be the Foundation of this Treaty.

1718 Conduct of Courts of Great-Britain & Spain 31 The projection of a Quadruple Alliance between the Emperor, France, England and Holland, seem'd to meet with some difficulties among the French Ministry and those of the Emperor.

1787 R. Burns Let. 12 Dec. (2001) I. 183 Misfortune, bodily constitution, hell and myself, have formed a ‘Quadruple Alliance’ to guarantee the other.

1834 Times 9 May 2/6 The first messenger brought the intelligence that the treaty of the quadruple alliance for the pacification of the Peninsula had been received by the court of Madrid.

1872 E. A. Freeman Gen. Sketch European Hist. (1874) xv. §2. 304 France, England, and the United Provinces presently joined the Emperor in the Quadruple Alliance against Spain.

1928 R. B. Mowat Hist. European Diplomacy iv. xxvi. 212 Dubois, Secretary of State Craggs in the absence of Stanhope, and Pentenriedter (ambassador of the Emperor) negotiated in concert. The result was the Quadruple Alliance, concluded in London on August 2, 1718.

2001 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 20 Dec. 66/4 Henry Kissinger has suggested the rebirth of the nineteenth-century Quadruple Alliance, now to comprise the United States, Britain, France, and Germany.

quadruple counterpoint n. Music four-part counterpoint in which the parts may be interchanged without breaking the rules of counterpoint; an instance of this.

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1796 A. F. C. Kollmann Ess. Musical Harmony xiv. 101 A quadruple counterpoint can be inverted twenty-three times, according to the number of changes which are contained in the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4.

1869 F. A. G. Ouseley Treat. Counterpoint xvii. 134 Triple and quadruple counterpoints..consist of three or four melodies so interwoven that any of them may become a correct bass to the others.

1903 Times 9 Mar. 10/6 Two sharply contrasted sections, the second of which, with its exhibition of contrapuntal skill (there is a passage in something like quadruple counterpoint), has a flavour of..Mozart.

2003 R. L. Todd in S. E. Hefling 19th-cent. Chamber Music iv. 181 Three years before..Mendelssohn had produced an overt imitation of the ‘Jupiter’ finale, complete with a strettolike combination of four subjects in quadruple counterpoint.

quadruple expansion n. the use of four stages of expansion in a compound steam engine, the same steam expanding successively in four cylinders; usually attributive.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > steam engine > [noun] > types of

fire waterwork1663

steam-wheel1797

Cornish engine1840

beam-engine1844

machine-whim1848

screw engine1852

donkey-engine1858

quadruple expansion1861

tandem engine1878

uniflow1971

1861 N. Amer. Rev. Aug. 177 In the triple and quadruple expansion engine the forces are more widely distributed than in the compound, and they are capable of being more exactly balanced.

1894 J. J. Astor Journey in Other Worlds i. iv. 48 The electricity generated by..slow-moving quadruple-expansion steam engines, provides the power required to run our electric ships.

1952 W. J. Fox & S. C. McBirnie Marine Steam Engines & Turbines vii. 137 The quadruple-expansion engine is not now so common as formerly, and modern practice appears to favour the triple-expansion engine with fairly high initial superheat.

1982 S. B. Flexner Listening to Amer. 164 The quadruple-expansion engine was just being introduced when the reciprocal steam engine was supplanted by the steam turbine.

quadruple pistole n. now historical = sense A. 3.

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1707 A. Justice Gen. Treat. Monies i. 7 The Quadruple Pistole, with Picture of a King Crown'd on the one side, and Arms on the other.

1859 I. S. Homans & I. S. Homans Cycl. Commerce & Commerc. Navigation (ed. 2) 348 Parma..quadruple pistole (double in proportion).

1899 Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 4 443/1 Quadruple pistoles..in the last century were commonly accepted in England as being of the value of 3l. 12s.

quadruple proportion n. a ratio of four to one.

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1557 R. Record Whetstone of Witte sig. Ci Proportion..Doble, Triple, Quadriple.

1683 W. Charleton Three Anat. Lect. 24 All the veins of a Sanguineous Animal taken together, are larger or more capacious, perhaps in a quadruple proportion, than all the Arteries put together.

1734 Builder's Dict. II. sig . Ff6^v The Bore of the Ajutage ought to be four Times less than the Bore or Diameter of the Pipe of Conduct; that is, it should be in a quadruple Proportion to it.

1808 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 98 101 A proportion selected from the after crystals..was found to contain the quadruple proportion of acid.

1999 D. K. L. Chua Absolute Music iii. 18 The diapason can be variously obtained between strings whose length is in duple proportion, or weights in quadruple proportion, or pipes in octuple proportion.

quadruple quaver n. Music (now rare) a hemidemisemiquaver.

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1778 G. Bernard tr. A. Bemetzrieder Music made Easy i. 35 If you compare the Quadruple-quaver to the Semi-brief, or Note of one pulsation, you will see that the latter equals sixty four of the former, or..that you must play sixty four Quadruple quavers in a second.

1908 W. L. Hubbard Musical Dict. 418/2 Quadruple quaver, sixty-fourth note.

quadruple ratio n. now rare = quadruple proportion n.

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1708 G. Vaux tr. J. C. Sturm Mathesis Juvenilis II. 91 The other Lesbian Cymatiums..in a Quadruple Ratio [L. ratione quadrupla] or Proportion with the Fillet..[etc.].

1835 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 125 181 With respect to the greatest diurnal and the greatest monthly range of the thermometer, the winter months have a range nearly in a quadruple ratio to the monsoon months.

1900 Amer. Math. Monthly 7 85 Increasing each dimension of triangle in quadruple ratio.

quadruple rhythm n. Music = quadruple time n.; an instance of this.

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1881 W. S. Pratt in W. Gladden Par. Probl. 460 Duple and quadruple rhythms are the best.

1939 B. Fles tr. E. Krenek Music Here & Now ix. 256 [In jazz] the meter, generally a normal quadruple rhythm, was invariably carried through, mostly by the piano, the bass drum, or the banjo.

1995 Yearbk. Trad. Music 27 85 Zapin has quadruple rhythm, while the sharah, like that of Oman, is in triple rhythm.

quadruple time n. Music rhythm or time having four beats in a bar.

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1706 J. Weaver tr. R. A. Feuillet Orchesography 47 Quadruple Time, is made use of in slow Tunes..and the Tunes call'd Loures.

a1856 J. G. Percival Poet. Wks. (1859) II. 368 The air in this instance is in quadruple time.

1914 Times 11 June 10/5 It is in four movements; the first might be called a dissertation upon a very simple theme, the second is practically a Scherzo, though in quadruple time.

2000 Jrnl. Music Theory 44 109 Compound duple differs from quadruple time in that its process is simpler.

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quadruplev.

Brit.

/kwɒˈdruːpl/,

/kwəˈdruːpl/, U.S.

/kwɑˈdrup(ə)l/,

/kwəˈdrup(ə)l/,

/kwɑˈdrəp(ə)l/,

/kwəˈdrəp(ə)l/

Forms: 1500s quadriple, 1500s– quadruple, 1600s quadruble, 1700s quadrople; Scottish pre-1700 1700s– quadruple.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French quadrupler; Latin quadruplāre.

Etymology: < Middle French, French quadrupler to make four times as great, to multiply by four (c1400), (intransitive) to increase fourfold (1694) and its etymon classical Latin quadruplāre to make four times as great, to multiply by four < quadruplus quadruple adj. Compare quadruple adj., quadruplate v.With the form quadrible compare forms at quatreble adj.

1. transitive. To make four times as great or as many; to multiply by four.

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the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (transitive)] > increase by specific proportion

doublec1290

treblea1325

triplea1400

redouble1477

quadruple1487

sextuple1632

quintuple1639

quinquiplicate1656

quintuplicate1676

fivefold1858

tenfold1858

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > four > [verb (transitive)] > multiply by four

quatreblea1398

quadruplate1486

quadruple1487

quadruplify1578

quadruplicate1661

1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xviii. 30 He suld fecht that day, Thouch Tryplit or quadruplit [1489 Adv. tribill and quatribill] war thai.

1557 R. Record Whetstone of Witte sig. Fiii Therfore I doe quadriple .195. and it maketh .780.

?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads i. 129 Yet we all, all losse thou sufferst thus, Will treble; quadruple in gaine.

1650 J. Howell Instr. Forren Travell (new ed.) App. 139 Double the howers above twelve in the longest solstitiall day, and the product will shew the climat, quadruble them 'twill shew the parallell.

1698 J. Bernard Lives Rom. Emperors I. 296 I have doubled his Salary, and quadrupled his other Allowances.

1792 A. Young Trav. France 439 I am confident..that the mass of human wretchedness is quadrupled by their influence.

1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. xiii. 140 A beam... If both ends are firmly fixed, the stiffness is again quadrupled.

1882 C. Pebody Eng. Journalism xxiii. 178 The Press, by reporting the speeches of these men, quadrupled their power in Parliament.

1883 Stubbs' Mercantile Circular 8 Nov. 982/2 The import of raw cotton..has more than quadrupled itself in two years.

1917 E. R. Burroughs Princess of Mars xxii. 268 Quadruple the air patrol, and let every man who leaves the city by air or ground be subjected to the closest scrutiny.

1961 O. Nash Coll. Verse 137 He without benefit of scruples His fun and income soon quadruples.

1991 World Press Rev. Dec. 38/2 The country's economic collapse quadrupled the cost of fufu, a staple food for Zairians, according to Le Monde.

2. intransitive. To increase or be multiplied to four times as much or as many as before.

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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > four > increase to four times as much [verb (intransitive)]

quadruple1776

the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (intransitive)] > in specific proportion

doublec1320

redouble?1473

treblea1625

quadruple1776

quintuple1792

triple1799

octuple1837

sextuple1856

1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. ii. ii. 357 The trade of Scotland has more than quadrupled since the first erection of the two publick banks at Edinburgh.

1833 H. Martineau Cinnamon & Pearls v. 97 The exports..have quadrupled since the relaxation of the monopoly.

1882 C. Pebody Eng. Journalism xix. 145 Mr. Levy reduced the price of the paper... The circulation doubled, trebled, quadrupled.

1936 J. W. Angell Behav. Money 41 Between 1890 and 1930, population doubled, outside currency quadrupled, and circulating deposits increased tenfold.

1987 E. E. Smith Miss Melville Returns (1988) i. 6 Under Jill's aegis, the prices for her paintings quadrupled immediately.

1994 Bottom Line 15 July 3/1 The symptoms double or quadruple in a short time.

†3. transitive. To amount to four times as many as. Obsolete.

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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > four > [verb (transitive)] > multiply by four > amount to four times as much as

quadruple1832

1832 G. C. Lewis Remarks Use & Abuse Polit. Terms xi. 92 The number of females..probably more than quadrupled that of the male governors.

Derivatives

ˈquadrupled adj. increased fourfold; quadruple.

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the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > increased by specific proportion

reboundeda1398

trebled?c1400

redoubled1540

doubled?a1560

tripled1583

quadrupled1607

sextupled1853

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > four > [adjective] > fourfold

fourfoldc1000

quatreblea1398

quadruplate?a1505

four-double1527

quadruple1557

quadruplex1606

quadrupled1607

quadruplicate1654

quadrifariousa1745

quaternate1753

quadriplicate1890

tetraplous1899

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > four > [adjective] > four times as much

quatreblea1398

quadruplate?a1505

quadruple1557

quadrupled1607

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 126 The Harts of Briletum and Iharne haue their raines Quadrupled or foure-fould.

1708 G. Vaux tr. J. C. Sturm Mathesis Juvenilis III. 173 Out of the quadrupled Number of Days..taking one day.

1881 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Austral. Grazier's Guide II. xxvii. 133 They afford an approximation to the settled comfort and security of English country life, with..quadrupled interest for capital expended.

1957 Railway Mag. June 376/1 Norton Fitzwarren Station..is at the end of the quadrupled section of the West of England main line.

1999 A. Digby Evol. Brit. Gen. Practice ii. 25 German lawyers were..conscious of professional overcrowding as a result of a quadrupled enrolment between 1871 and 1906.

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单词	quadruple
释义	quadruplen.adj.adv. Brit. /ˈkwɒdrᵿpl/, /kwɒˈdruːpl/, /kwəˈdruːpl/, U.S. /kwɑˈdrup(ə)l/, /kwəˈdrup(ə)l/, /kwɑˈdrəp(ə)l/, /kwəˈdrəp(ə)l/ Forms: late Middle English–1500s quadriple, late Middle English– quadruple, 1500s quadripulle, 1600s–1700s quadruble; Scottish pre-1700 quadrapull, pre-1700 quadripill, pre-1700 quadrouple, pre-1700 quadrupill, pre-1700 1700s– quadruple. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French quadruple; Latin quadruplus. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French quadruple, Middle French quadruble (French quadruple ) fourfold, (as noun) fourfold amount (both 13th cent.), lateral incisor tooth (1480), type of gold coin, either a Spanish double pistole or a French coin worth four écus (1594) and its etymon classical Latin quadruplus (adjective) four times as great or as much, also quadruplum (noun) quantity four times as great or as much, fourfold penalty (use as noun of neuter of quadruplus ), also post-classical Latin quadruplus (noun) incisor tooth (from 13th cent. in British sources; 1363 in the passage translated in quot. ?a1425 at sense A. 1; use as noun (short for dēns quadruplus incisor tooth) of masculine of quadruplus ) < quadru- quadru- comb. form + -plus (in e.g. duplus double adj.¹). Compare earlier quatreble adj., and also quatreble n., quadruple v.The reason for the name in sense A. 1 (in Latin and hence in French and English) is unclear. A. n. †1. A lateral incisor tooth. Obsolete. rare.In humans there are four incisor teeth in each jaw; the two middle incisors were formerly called duals (see dual n. 2). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > types or spec. teeth > [noun] > with quadruple root quadruple?a1425 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 46 Þanne in þe ouer ieawe ben sextene teeþ, foure þat hatte quadruply & pares, keruers.] ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 12^v Þai [sc. teeth] bene, forsoþ, as most ofte 32, s. 16 in euery chawel, þof al in somme men, þer ben noȝt founden bot 28, viz. 2 dualez, 2 quadruples [L. quadrupli], & 2 caininez, 8 molarez, & 2 casales. ?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Fj^v Two douales, two quadruples .viij. molares, and two cassalles. 1577 Vicary's Profitable Treat. Anat. sig. F.iii^v They that haue the whole number haue .xxxij. that is to say .xvj. aboue, and as many beneath, as thus, two Dwallies, two Quadripulles, two Cannines, [etc.]. 2. A fourfold number or amount; a quantity four times as great as another. Also: a set of four things or parts. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > four > [noun] > multiplication by four > four times as much fourfoldc1380 quadruplec1425 quatreble1429 quadruplate1980 c1425 tr. J. Arderne Treat. Fistula (Sloane 6) (1910) 30 (MED) Of alle þise herbes, if þou may haue þam, take euen porcion, outtake of wodebynde, of whiche, if it may be hadde, be taken þe triple or quadriple. 1545 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1908) VIII. 365 Pryces sett doun to the gryit seall to be takin heirefter for all sick infeftmentis and wreatis as passis that seale: that the keipare of the gryite seale exceide not the quadrupill off the previe seale. 1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus 61 Now if we place these Triples..in the vpper ranke we shall produce Quadruples. 1640 in J. Nicholson Minute Bk. War Comm. Covenanters Kirkcudbright 29 Dec. (1855) 149 The quadruple of the pryce of the inch of the best sort of schoes. 1695 Sc. Acts Will. III (1822) IX. c. 55. 453/1 Incurring the Quadruples appoynted by the said Act by way of penalty. 1705 E. Scarburgh Eng. Euclide 41 For in the naming Double and Half, who does not presently conceive the same evident truth in Triples, Quadruples, Quintuples. a1770 T. Chatterton Compl. Wks. (1971) I. 515 To fill up places by preferment void, Is Dyson by the Quadruples employ'd. 1822 J. Flint Lett. from Amer. 309 I believe, if he had laid them [sc. the damages] at quadruple, the jury would have given him every cent. 1865 D. G. Mitchell Wet days at Edgewood 73 The bill of costs, which has grown into a quadruple of the original estimates. 1922 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 23 July 13/3 The piping is being backed off in singles, doubles, triples, or quadruples. 1965 Jrnl. Near Eastern Stud. 24 276 One thousand and two hundred deva years is the fourth division of the cycle, and its double is the third division, and its triple is the second, and its quadruple is the first. 1992 S. P. Maran Astron. & Astrophysics Encycl. 52/1 Triples consist of a close pair [of stars] with a wide companion, quadruples of two widely separated close pairs, and so on. 3. A coin of the value of four pistoles (see pistole n.). Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > Italian or Sicilian coins florin1303 janec1386 ducatc1470 ouncec1520 bajoccoa1549 denara1549 julioa1549 zecchino1572 chequina1587 mocenigo1599 soldo1599 quattrino1605 gazet1607 lira1617 paolo1617 sequin1617 julet1632 betso1641 quadruple1655 scudoc1660 doppy1691 Venetian1698 carlin?1706 pentecontalitron1738 paul1767 crazia1805 centesimo1840 1655 tr. C. Sorel Comical Hist. Francion xii. 15 See here his Quadruples which I never touched before. 1673 J. Dryden Amboyna ii. 17 No transitory Sum, three hundred Quadruples in your own Countrey Gold. 1720 J. Steuart Let.-bk. (1915) 126 Nine quadruples of Spanish gold, and two guineas. 1830 Times 6 Aug. 2/5 Some were full of quadruples, some of sequins of Venice, others contained a mixture of gold coin. 1849 Sandusky (Ohio) Clarion 28 May Here are thirty quadruples, which I am willing to lose. 1947 A. R. Frey Dict. Numismatic Terms 77/1 Ecu Pistolet, a gold coin of Geneva issued from about 1562 to 1585... A larger gold coin of the same type but struck in the following century was known as the Quadruple. 4. A printing machine which prints four copies at once. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > [noun] > printing four copies at once quadruple1890 1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 203 It was Mr. Lloyd who had the first of these new Quadruples at work on a London daily newspaper. 1906 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 19 Nov. 1/1 (advt.) The Tribune now has two perfecting presses running side by side... One is a Goss sextuple of the latest model and the other a Hoe quadruple. 1993 Hobart (Tasmania) Mercury (Nexis) 13 Feb. Mercury presses over the years..April 1924: London-built Hoe quadruple. B. adj. 1. Four times as many or as much, fourfold (formerly with of, to). Also: consisting of four parts or things. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > four > [adjective] > fourfold fourfoldc1000 quatreblea1398 quadruplate?a1505 four-double1527 quadruple1557 quadruplex1606 quadrupled1607 quadruplicate1654 quadrifariousa1745 quaternate1753 quadriplicate1890 tetraplous1899 the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > four > [adjective] > four times as much quatreblea1398 quadruplate?a1505 quadruple1557 quadrupled1607 1557 R. Record Whetstone of Witte sig. Bi^v If it containe it .4. tymes, then is it [sc. the proportion] quadrupla, or quadruple. 1580 J. Baret (title) An alvearie or quadruple dictionarie, containing foure sundrie tongues: namelie English, Latine, Greeke, and French. 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie iii. x. 153 A law that..doth punish theues with a quadruple restitution. 1628 J. Mede Let. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. III. 268 The quadruple strength which they have prepared against our fleet. a1648 Ld. Herbert Life Henry VIII (1649) 9 Such as might be thought effectively quadruple to so much in this Age. 1721 P. Delany in J. Swift Wks. (1765) XIII. 367 How I joy to see thee wander..In circling mazes, smooth and supple, And ending in a clink quadruple. 1807 C. Hutton Course Math. (ed. 5) II. 269 To receive light and heat quadruple to that of the earth. 1825 T. B. Macaulay Machiavelli in Ess. (1887) 34 When the value of silver was more than quadruple of what it now is. 1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 576 Single, triple, or quadruple concentric series of narrow elements. 1925 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 127 2031 We have now succeeded in identifying a group capable of quadruple attachment to metallic atoms. 1940 G. Jacob Orchestral Technique (ed. 2) i. 3 Some very fully scored modern symphonic and operatic works employ quadruple woodwind. 1994 N.Y. Times 20 Feb. viii. 1/4 Unwilling to take any big risks, Urmanov left out his trademark quadruple toe jump. 2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 7 Sept. iv. 2/4 Slamball?.. Two teams of four players each use trampolines..to soar and dunk—with quadruple the hang time of a pro basketball player. 2. Printing. Of printing paper: four times the usual size. More commonly abbreviated to quad (see quad adj.¹ 1). ΚΠ 1866 Times 17 Apr. 15/7 (advt.) Also, 145 reams quadruple foolscap, 48lb. to 73lb. 1890 Cent. Dict. Quadruple-crown, a size of printing paper, 30 × 40 inches. 1938 L. M. Harrod Librarians' Gloss. 137 Sheets of paper bearing the same size name can be in double (‘double’) or quadruple (‘quad’) size. C. adv. To four times the amount or extent; in four ways or respects; quadruply. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > four > [adverb] > four times as much fourfold1535 quadruply1599 quadruple1841 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xli. 169 Places of distrust and cruelty, and restraint, they would have left quadruple-locked for ever. 1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 62/1 Blundell's Patent Duplex (quadruple acting) portable Fire Engines. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvii. [Ithaca] 682 A rectangular trunk, quadruple battened, having capped corners..initialled on its fore side in white lettering B. C. T. 1986 D. Hogan New Shirt ii. 125 Phineas was darning double, triple and quadruple coloured socks. 1995 Racing Post 14 July 63/3 The Welsh wizard then double-bogeyed and quadruple-bogeyed the next two holes to fall off the leaderboard. Compounds quadruple algebra n. Mathematics (now historical) algebra in which four independent units are used (which may only be added together formally). ΚΠ 1870 B. Peirce Linear Associative Algebra 7 An algebra, which has only one letter in its alphabet is a single algebra; one which has two letters is a double algebra, one of three letters, a triple algebra; one of four letters, a quadruple algebra and so on. 1898 J. Hammond Let. 22 Dec. Hamilton's Quaternions is a quadruple algebra, the 4 independent units being his i, j, k, and the unit of quantity. 1967 Isis 58 95 A discussion of 19th-century development of 2 types of multiple algebra, quaternions (quadruple algebra), and vector analysis (triple algebra). Quadruple Alliance n. an alliance of four powers, spec. (a) that of Britain, France, the Holy Roman Emperor, and the Netherlands in 1718; (b) that of Britain, France, Spain, and Portugal in 1834; also in extended use. ΚΠ 1705 D. Jones Compl. Hist. Europe 1704 451 The Quadruple Alliance which is in Agitation to be concluded [sc. between England, Prussia, Denmark, and the Netherlands] in favour of the City [sc. Danzig], shall be the Foundation of this Treaty. 1718 Conduct of Courts of Great-Britain & Spain 31 The projection of a Quadruple Alliance between the Emperor, France, England and Holland, seem'd to meet with some difficulties among the French Ministry and those of the Emperor. 1787 R. Burns Let. 12 Dec. (2001) I. 183 Misfortune, bodily constitution, hell and myself, have formed a ‘Quadruple Alliance’ to guarantee the other. 1834 Times 9 May 2/6 The first messenger brought the intelligence that the treaty of the quadruple alliance for the pacification of the Peninsula had been received by the court of Madrid. 1872 E. A. Freeman Gen. Sketch European Hist. (1874) xv. §2. 304 France, England, and the United Provinces presently joined the Emperor in the Quadruple Alliance against Spain. 1928 R. B. Mowat Hist. European Diplomacy iv. xxvi. 212 Dubois, Secretary of State Craggs in the absence of Stanhope, and Pentenriedter (ambassador of the Emperor) negotiated in concert. The result was the Quadruple Alliance, concluded in London on August 2, 1718. 2001 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 20 Dec. 66/4 Henry Kissinger has suggested the rebirth of the nineteenth-century Quadruple Alliance, now to comprise the United States, Britain, France, and Germany. quadruple counterpoint n. Music four-part counterpoint in which the parts may be interchanged without breaking the rules of counterpoint; an instance of this. ΚΠ 1796 A. F. C. Kollmann Ess. Musical Harmony xiv. 101 A quadruple counterpoint can be inverted twenty-three times, according to the number of changes which are contained in the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4. 1869 F. A. G. Ouseley Treat. Counterpoint xvii. 134 Triple and quadruple counterpoints..consist of three or four melodies so interwoven that any of them may become a correct bass to the others. 1903 Times 9 Mar. 10/6 Two sharply contrasted sections, the second of which, with its exhibition of contrapuntal skill (there is a passage in something like quadruple counterpoint), has a flavour of..Mozart. 2003 R. L. Todd in S. E. Hefling 19th-cent. Chamber Music iv. 181 Three years before..Mendelssohn had produced an overt imitation of the ‘Jupiter’ finale, complete with a strettolike combination of four subjects in quadruple counterpoint. quadruple expansion n. the use of four stages of expansion in a compound steam engine, the same steam expanding successively in four cylinders; usually attributive. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > steam engine > [noun] > types of fire waterwork1663 steam-wheel1797 Cornish engine1840 beam-engine1844 machine-whim1848 screw engine1852 donkey-engine1858 quadruple expansion1861 tandem engine1878 uniflow1971 1861 N. Amer. Rev. Aug. 177 In the triple and quadruple expansion engine the forces are more widely distributed than in the compound, and they are capable of being more exactly balanced. 1894 J. J. Astor Journey in Other Worlds i. iv. 48 The electricity generated by..slow-moving quadruple-expansion steam engines, provides the power required to run our electric ships. 1952 W. J. Fox & S. C. McBirnie Marine Steam Engines & Turbines vii. 137 The quadruple-expansion engine is not now so common as formerly, and modern practice appears to favour the triple-expansion engine with fairly high initial superheat. 1982 S. B. Flexner Listening to Amer. 164 The quadruple-expansion engine was just being introduced when the reciprocal steam engine was supplanted by the steam turbine. quadruple pistole n. now historical = sense A. 3. ΚΠ 1707 A. Justice Gen. Treat. Monies i. 7 The Quadruple Pistole, with Picture of a King Crown'd on the one side, and Arms on the other. 1859 I. S. Homans & I. S. Homans Cycl. Commerce & Commerc. Navigation (ed. 2) 348 Parma..quadruple pistole (double in proportion). 1899 Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 4 443/1 Quadruple pistoles..in the last century were commonly accepted in England as being of the value of 3l. 12s. quadruple proportion n. a ratio of four to one. ΚΠ 1557 R. Record Whetstone of Witte sig. Ci Proportion..Doble, Triple, Quadriple. 1683 W. Charleton Three Anat. Lect. 24 All the veins of a Sanguineous Animal taken together, are larger or more capacious, perhaps in a quadruple proportion, than all the Arteries put together. 1734 Builder's Dict. II. sig . Ff6^v The Bore of the Ajutage ought to be four Times less than the Bore or Diameter of the Pipe of Conduct; that is, it should be in a quadruple Proportion to it. 1808 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 98 101 A proportion selected from the after crystals..was found to contain the quadruple proportion of acid. 1999 D. K. L. Chua Absolute Music iii. 18 The diapason can be variously obtained between strings whose length is in duple proportion, or weights in quadruple proportion, or pipes in octuple proportion. quadruple quaver n. Music (now rare) a hemidemisemiquaver. ΚΠ 1778 G. Bernard tr. A. Bemetzrieder Music made Easy i. 35 If you compare the Quadruple-quaver to the Semi-brief, or Note of one pulsation, you will see that the latter equals sixty four of the former, or..that you must play sixty four Quadruple quavers in a second. 1908 W. L. Hubbard Musical Dict. 418/2 Quadruple quaver, sixty-fourth note. quadruple ratio n. now rare = quadruple proportion n. ΚΠ 1708 G. Vaux tr. J. C. Sturm Mathesis Juvenilis II. 91 The other Lesbian Cymatiums..in a Quadruple Ratio [L. ratione quadrupla] or Proportion with the Fillet..[etc.]. 1835 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 125 181 With respect to the greatest diurnal and the greatest monthly range of the thermometer, the winter months have a range nearly in a quadruple ratio to the monsoon months. 1900 Amer. Math. Monthly 7 85 Increasing each dimension of triangle in quadruple ratio. quadruple rhythm n. Music = quadruple time n.; an instance of this. ΚΠ 1881 W. S. Pratt in W. Gladden Par. Probl. 460 Duple and quadruple rhythms are the best. 1939 B. Fles tr. E. Krenek Music Here & Now ix. 256 [In jazz] the meter, generally a normal quadruple rhythm, was invariably carried through, mostly by the piano, the bass drum, or the banjo. 1995 Yearbk. Trad. Music 27 85 Zapin has quadruple rhythm, while the sharah, like that of Oman, is in triple rhythm. quadruple time n. Music rhythm or time having four beats in a bar. ΚΠ 1706 J. Weaver tr. R. A. Feuillet Orchesography 47 Quadruple Time, is made use of in slow Tunes..and the Tunes call'd Loures. a1856 J. G. Percival Poet. Wks. (1859) II. 368 The air in this instance is in quadruple time. 1914 Times 11 June 10/5 It is in four movements; the first might be called a dissertation upon a very simple theme, the second is practically a Scherzo, though in quadruple time. 2000 Jrnl. Music Theory 44 109 Compound duple differs from quadruple time in that its process is simpler. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). quadruplev. Brit. /kwɒˈdruːpl/, /kwəˈdruːpl/, U.S. /kwɑˈdrup(ə)l/, /kwəˈdrup(ə)l/, /kwɑˈdrəp(ə)l/, /kwəˈdrəp(ə)l/ Forms: 1500s quadriple, 1500s– quadruple, 1600s quadruble, 1700s quadrople; Scottish pre-1700 1700s– quadruple. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French quadrupler; Latin quadruplāre. Etymology: < Middle French, French quadrupler to make four times as great, to multiply by four (c1400), (intransitive) to increase fourfold (1694) and its etymon classical Latin quadruplāre to make four times as great, to multiply by four < quadruplus quadruple adj. Compare quadruple adj., quadruplate v.With the form quadrible compare forms at quatreble adj. 1. transitive. To make four times as great or as many; to multiply by four. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (transitive)] > increase by specific proportion doublec1290 treblea1325 triplea1400 redouble1477 quadruple1487 sextuple1632 quintuple1639 quinquiplicate1656 quintuplicate1676 fivefold1858 tenfold1858 the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > four > [verb (transitive)] > multiply by four quatreblea1398 quadruplate1486 quadruple1487 quadruplify1578 quadruplicate1661 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xviii. 30 He suld fecht that day, Thouch Tryplit or quadruplit [1489 Adv. tribill and quatribill] war thai. 1557 R. Record Whetstone of Witte sig. Fiii Therfore I doe quadriple .195. and it maketh .780. ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads i. 129 Yet we all, all losse thou sufferst thus, Will treble; quadruple in gaine. 1650 J. Howell Instr. Forren Travell (new ed.) App. 139 Double the howers above twelve in the longest solstitiall day, and the product will shew the climat, quadruble them 'twill shew the parallell. 1698 J. Bernard Lives Rom. Emperors I. 296 I have doubled his Salary, and quadrupled his other Allowances. 1792 A. Young Trav. France 439 I am confident..that the mass of human wretchedness is quadrupled by their influence. 1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. xiii. 140 A beam... If both ends are firmly fixed, the stiffness is again quadrupled. 1882 C. Pebody Eng. Journalism xxiii. 178 The Press, by reporting the speeches of these men, quadrupled their power in Parliament. 1883 Stubbs' Mercantile Circular 8 Nov. 982/2 The import of raw cotton..has more than quadrupled itself in two years. 1917 E. R. Burroughs Princess of Mars xxii. 268 Quadruple the air patrol, and let every man who leaves the city by air or ground be subjected to the closest scrutiny. 1961 O. Nash Coll. Verse 137 He without benefit of scruples His fun and income soon quadruples. 1991 World Press Rev. Dec. 38/2 The country's economic collapse quadrupled the cost of fufu, a staple food for Zairians, according to Le Monde. 2. intransitive. To increase or be multiplied to four times as much or as many as before. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > four > increase to four times as much [verb (intransitive)] quadruple1776 the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (intransitive)] > in specific proportion doublec1320 redouble?1473 treblea1625 quadruple1776 quintuple1792 triple1799 octuple1837 sextuple1856 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. ii. ii. 357 The trade of Scotland has more than quadrupled since the first erection of the two publick banks at Edinburgh. View more context for this quotation 1833 H. Martineau Cinnamon & Pearls v. 97 The exports..have quadrupled since the relaxation of the monopoly. 1882 C. Pebody Eng. Journalism xix. 145 Mr. Levy reduced the price of the paper... The circulation doubled, trebled, quadrupled. 1936 J. W. Angell Behav. Money 41 Between 1890 and 1930, population doubled, outside currency quadrupled, and circulating deposits increased tenfold. 1987 E. E. Smith Miss Melville Returns (1988) i. 6 Under Jill's aegis, the prices for her paintings quadrupled immediately. 1994 Bottom Line 15 July 3/1 The symptoms double or quadruple in a short time. †3. transitive. To amount to four times as many as. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > four > [verb (transitive)] > multiply by four > amount to four times as much as quadruple1832 1832 G. C. Lewis Remarks Use & Abuse Polit. Terms xi. 92 The number of females..probably more than quadrupled that of the male governors. Derivatives ˈquadrupled adj. increased fourfold; quadruple. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > increased by specific proportion reboundeda1398 trebled?c1400 redoubled1540 doubled?a1560 tripled1583 quadrupled1607 sextupled1853 the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > four > [adjective] > fourfold fourfoldc1000 quatreblea1398 quadruplate?a1505 four-double1527 quadruple1557 quadruplex1606 quadrupled1607 quadruplicate1654 quadrifariousa1745 quaternate1753 quadriplicate1890 tetraplous1899 the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > four > [adjective] > four times as much quatreblea1398 quadruplate?a1505 quadruple1557 quadrupled1607 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 126 The Harts of Briletum and Iharne haue their raines Quadrupled or foure-fould. 1708 G. Vaux tr. J. C. Sturm Mathesis Juvenilis III. 173 Out of the quadrupled Number of Days..taking one day. 1881 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Austral. Grazier's Guide II. xxvii. 133 They afford an approximation to the settled comfort and security of English country life, with..quadrupled interest for capital expended. 1957 Railway Mag. June 376/1 Norton Fitzwarren Station..is at the end of the quadrupled section of the West of England main line. 1999 A. Digby Evol. Brit. Gen. Practice ii. 25 German lawyers were..conscious of professional overcrowding as a result of a quadrupled enrolment between 1871 and 1906. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.adv.?a1425v.1487
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