Definition of quadruple in English:

quadruple

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adjective

attributive

1Consisting of four parts or elements.
‘a quadruple murder’
- ‘Four years later he suffered more attacks and needed a quadruple heart bypass that left him with kidney failure.’
- ‘He also has overcome bladder cancer and a quadruple bypass on his heart.’
- ‘I have also worked on patients during three LVAD implant operations and one quadruple coronary by-pass operation.’
- ‘He had also recently recovered from a quadruple bypass operation.’
- ‘I am recovering from a quadruple coronary artery bypass operation.’
- ‘The informant suggested the quadruple murder was the result of ‘a hit gone sour’ and Cooper was made a ‘scapegoat’.’
- ‘At the heart of this quadruple bill was Liturgy, an enthralling pas de deux by the clever Christopher.’
- ‘The timing of the quadruple murders is uncanny.’
- ‘I never had any repercussions from that quadruple bypass at all.’
- ‘Her first assignment was to report on an article about a quadruple murder.’
- ‘Ok, would you mind if I scored a quadruple century?’
- ‘A quadruple threat, he can sing, act, write and pose.’
- ‘Only the quadruple mutant lacking all four genes exhibits a complete loss of floral organ identity.’
- ‘The legs were divided by four sets of joints, like having quadruple knees, and each ‘knee’ was filled with sand.’
- ‘The test is called the quadruple screen when it measures the four substances in the mother's blood.’
- ‘Ruth orders four rounds of quadruple ryes, Faulkner orders four rounds of moonshine.’
- ‘It's a quadruple negative, they cancel out, and everyone will be happy.’
- ‘Women have the quadruple roles of mother, housekeeper, wife, and worker, roughly in that order of importance.’
- ‘The ship is equipped with two close-range, portable, Strela - 3M air defence missile systems, each system having a quadruple launcher.’
- ‘I think she did a very nice quadruple pirouette.’
1. 1.1Consisting of four times as much or as many as usual.
  ‘a quadruple vodka’
  ‘For linguistics nerds this is like a quadruple vodka.’
  ‘The 16-stone defendant had drunk several pints of beer, alcopops and a quadruple vodka.’
  ‘Hornewer is demanding over $2 million for a rematch, about quadruple what Byrd earned in April.’
  ‘The thing about being independent is that all the profits are quadruple, quintuple what someone on a major label would make.’
2. 1.2(of time in music) having four beats in a bar.
  ‘Triple chants have been composed and a few quadruple chants also exist, but in use these become tiresome.’
  ‘The second piece is a Gavotta, a moderate dance in quadruple meter.’
  ‘All of sudden he does this incredible run where he goes up two octaves and back down in quadruple time.’

Pronunciation

quadruple

/kwäˈdro͞op(ə)l/ /kwɑˈdrup(ə)l/

verb

Increase or be increased fourfold.
no object ‘oil prices quadrupled in the 1970s’
- ‘These socks are now also available in some fancy gift shops with their price tripled or quadrupled.’
- ‘Within five years, the nations there had taken ownership of their own oil - and prices had quadrupled.’
- ‘Agri-food exports have quadrupled since my first appointment.’
- ‘Within a period of 12 months, the price of gold almost quadrupled from $225 to $850.’
- ‘In Fort Beaufort, water tariffs nearly quadrupled in five years.’
- ‘The jail and prison population has nearly quadrupled since 1980.’
- ‘My council tax has nearly quadrupled since 1990.’
- ‘Adult obesity rates have almost quadrupled in 25 years.’
- ‘Thus their numbers almost quadrupled during a period when the country's population grew by little more than half.’
- ‘The result was that the college virtually quadrupled in size.’
- ‘Mines and constant ambushes depleted the government forces, which had quadrupled in size to 60,000 through heavy conscription.’
- ‘Internet use in China has quadrupled since 2000 and ultimately censorship may prove futile.’
- ‘Chlamydia rates were discovered this month to have more than quadrupled in the last decade.’
- ‘Perth's population quadrupled in a decade, with many newcomers fleeing the depression in the eastern states.’
- ‘The prices of some houses, especially in the downtown area, have tripled and even quadrupled.’
- ‘Attention is also being focused on the possibility of trebling or even quadrupling the length of suburban rail track.’
- ‘The company says Super Bowl ads helped quadruple its sales the day after the game.’
- ‘Using the techniques I learned in hosiery, we were able to quadruple our supermarket sales in two years.’
- ‘People who smoke quadrupled their risk for this stroke, scientists found.’
- ‘A heavy meal may quadruple the risk of a heart attack.’

Pronunciation

quadruple

/kwäˈdro͞op(ə)l/ /kwɑˈdrup(ə)l/

noun

A quadruple thing, number, or amount.
‘Now that marriage no longer means much, why not let couples or triples or quadruples of whatever variety get married?’
- ‘That, and his extraordinary capacity for self-sacrificing friendship, loyalty and sweet-natured nannying, have been his quadruple of acclaimed lifetime's high-lights.’
- ‘It was impossible, Alex Ferguson said during the week, for Manchester United to win the quadruple.’
- ‘However, from quadruples onward, no model fits the data.’
- ‘The quadruple of this is 84, which subtracted from the square of 10, namely 100, yields 16.’
- ‘Then, he went on to become the first man in Test cricket to hit a quadruple.’
- ‘Just think of the spate of double centuries we saw last season, in addition to 2 triples and one quadruple.’
- ‘Therefore, another description of this four-dimensional sphere is that it is the set of all quadruples (a, b, c, d).’
- ‘There have now been 19 triple-centuries - and one quadruple - in Test cricket.’
- ‘Over the same period, Tesco's have doubled and its sales are now quadruple that of M & S.’