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Definition of quadruple in English:
quadruple
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adjective
attributive1Consisting 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.’
- 1.1Consisting 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.’
- 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.’
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.’
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.’
Origin
Late Middle English (as a verb): via French from Latin quadruplus, from quadru- ‘four’ + -plus as in duplus (see duple).
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