单词 | quadruplication |
释义 | quadruplicationn. 1. The action or process of making quadruple; multiplication by four; the result of this, a fourfold increase or occurrence. Also: †= quadruplicature n. (obsolete rare). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > four > [noun] > multiplication by four quadruplation1557 quadruplication1578 the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > increasing in specific proportion doubling1398 redoubling?1473 quadrupling1573 duplication1590 tripling1603 redoublement1611 sextupling1656 millecuplation1678 trebling1694 quadruplication1836 quintupling1862 sextuplication1935 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man v. f. 77v It [sc. a vein] is admitted into the quadruplication of Dura mater. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Quadruplication, the doubling or folding of a thing four times, a repeating or making four times over. a1690 S. Jeake Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 24 Quadruplication..is to double the Duplication. 1836 A. Alison Hist. Europe from French Revol. V. xli. 550 Twenty-eight years: the well-known period of the quadruplication of the sum at compound interest of 5 per cent. 1892 Science 21 Oct. 235/1 As our seeing [through a telescope] improves we may expect triplication, quadruplication, etc. 1928 Amer. Naturalist 62 27 Both of these plants were thought to be simple tetrasomics (if one may use that term for quadruplication of a portion of a chromosome). 1945 A. Bonné Econ. Devel. Middle East iv. 27 This development has brought about almost a quadruplication in the number of smallholders. 1997 S. R. Fischer Rongorongo xx. 219 What these multiplications might signify is not discussed. (Quadruplications are however interpreted as being duplications that are doubled.) ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > pleading > [noun] > a pleading or plea > subsequent replies on either side replication1425 rejoinder1447 rebutter1540 surrejoinder1542 triplication1583 quadruplication1593 duply1609 duplication1622 quadruply1624 quintuplyc1638 re-rejoinder1702 rebuttal1792 quintuplication1860 society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical discipline > court > legal process > [noun] > defendant's plea quadruplication1593 duplication1622 1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 60 If I come vpon him with a gentle reply, he will welcome me with a fierce reioynder: for any my briefe Triplication, he will prouide a Quadruplication at-large. 1646 J. Cooke Vindic. Professors Law 44 The Civilians have their Libell Answer duplication, triplication, quadruplication. 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 251 Quad [r] uplications, which the Defendant propounds to the Plaintiffs Triplications. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1578 |
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