单词 | quadrupling |
释义 | quadruplingn. The action of quadrupling something; quadruplication. ΘΚΠ 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 1573 J. Bridges Supremacie Christian Princes 340 Haue ye neuer redde of the Popes dubbling, trebling, quadrupling, and extreme excessiue encreasing of payments? c1633 R. Delamain Grammelogia sig. ** The doubling, tripling, quadrupling, quintupling, decupling, centupling of Circles. 1694 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 18 70 The doubling, trebling, quadrupling, &c. of Rations is performed by squaring, cubing, biquadrating, &c. of the terms. 1772 J. Forbes Petition Lords of Council & Session 15 The way they make out the quadrupling of this burden is thus. 1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 27 Mar. 1/1 Supplemented, say, by the quadrupling of our field artillery. 1912 Times 13 June 21/7 To consider the quadrupling of the G.I.P. line from the Ghats to Bombay. 1991 Business Life (Brit. Airways) May 10/3 Its gas-guzzling rotary engines were hit amidships by the quadrupling of oil prices. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1573 |
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