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Webster 1913 Edition
Centuple
Cen′tu-ple
,Adj.
[L.
centuplex
; centum + plicare
to fold; cf. F. centuple
.] Hundredfold.
Cen′tu-ple
,Verb.
T.
To increase a hundredfold.
Webster 1828 Edition
Centuple
CENTUPLE
,Adj.
CENTUPLE
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
centuple
centuple
See also: centuplé
English
Adjective
centuple (not comparable)
- Hundredfold. Multiplied by one hundred.
Translations
hundredfold
Verb
centuple (third-person singular simple present centuples, present participle centupling, simple past and past participle centupled)
- (intransitive) To increase a hundredfold.
- (transitive) To increase or multiply something by a hundred.
- 2015, Errico Malatesta, Carl Levy, Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta
- "Mechanisation, science, and technology have centupled the productive potential of human labour."
- 2015, Errico Malatesta, Carl Levy, Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta