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Webster 1913 Edition
Quadruplicate
Quad-ru′pli-cate
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Quadruplicated
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Quadruplicating
.] 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
proportion2.
(Math.)
Raised to the fourth power.
[R.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Quadruplicate
QUADRU'PLICATE
,Adj.
QUADRU'PLICATE
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
quadruplicate
quadruplicate
English
Adjective
quadruplicate (not comparable)
- 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...
- 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)
- 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)
See also
Italian
Verb
quadruplicate
- second-person plural present indicative of quadruplicare
- second-person plural imperative of quadruplicare
- feminine plural of quadruplicato