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Webster 1913 Edition


Quadruplicate

Quad-ru′pli-cate

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Quadruplicated
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Quadruplicating
.]
[L.
quadruplicatus
, p. p. of
quadruplicare
, fr.
quadruple
[GREEK] fourfold. See
Quadruplex
.]
To make fourfold; to double twice; to quadruple.

Quad-ru′pli-cate

,
Adj.
[L.
quadruplicatus
, p. p.]
1.
Fourfold; doubled twice; four times repeated;
as, a
quadruplicate
ratio, or a
quadruplicate
proportion
.
2.
(Math.)
Raised to the fourth power.
[R.]

Webster 1828 Edition


Quadruplicate

QUADRU'PLICATE

,
Adj.
Fourfold; four times repeated; as a quadruplicate ratio or proportion.

QUADRU'PLICATE

,
Verb.
T.
[L. quadruplico; quatuor and plico, to fold.] To make fourfold; to double twice.

Definition 2024


quadruplicate

quadruplicate

English

Adjective

quadruplicate (not comparable)

  1. having four parts
    • 1903: H.G. Wells, Mankind in the Making – The small schools might specialize upon the type locally most desirable, the larger might group its triplicate (or quadruplicate) system of sustained and serious courses about a common Library...
  1. four times over, multiplied by four
    • 1891: Rudyard Kipling, American Notes – ... Fortune, who delights in making the miner or the lumber-man a quadruplicate millionaire and in "busting" the railroad king.

Noun

quadruplicate (plural quadruplicates)

  1. in quadruplicate: four times over, in four copies
    • c.1886: Rudyard Kipling, "The Lovers' Litany" – Four times Cupid's debtor I-- / Bankrupt in quadruplicate.

Verb

quadruplicate (third-person singular simple present quadruplicates, present participle quadruplicating, simple past and past participle quadruplicated)

  1. To replicate four times; to make fourfold; to quadruple.

See also


Italian

Verb

quadruplicate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of quadruplicare
  2. second-person plural imperative of quadruplicare
  3. feminine plural of quadruplicato

Latin

Verb

quadruplicāte

  1. first-person plural present active imperative of quadruplicō