quadruple
quadruple Lexical Profile
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• adjective
Four times as great in size, amount, number, or degree.
"Employees who work on national holidays are eligible for quadruple pay under the new contract."
Consisting of four parts, elements, or members.
"The nations signed a quadruple alliance to ensure regional stability and mutual trade."
Having four beats per measure, with the first and third beats receiving the primary accents (in music).
"Most contemporary rock and pop songs are written in quadruple time."
• verb
To increase or cause to increase fourfold in size, number, value, or amount.
"The renewable energy startup managed to quadruple its solar panel output over the past two years."
• noun
A number, amount, or quantity four times as great as another.
"Twenty is the quadruple of five."
A set, group, or sequence of four things or people; an ordered tuple of four elements in mathematics or computing.
"Each database record is stored as a quadruple containing the subject, predicate, object, and timestamp."
A jump in figure skating in which the skater completes four full revolutions in the air before landing.
"She became the first skater in the competition to land a clean quadruple in the free program."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French 'quadruple', which derives from Latin 'quadruplus' (fourfold), formed from 'quattuor' (four) and '-plus' (akin to 'plenus', meaning full or fold).