quadruple
IPA: kwɑdrˈupʌɫ
noun
- Something that is four times the usual number, amount, size, etc.
- (skating) A figure-skating jump with four revolutions in the air.
verb
- (transitive) To multiply by four.
- (intransitive) To increase by a factor of four.
- (rail transport) To provide four parallel running lines on a given stretch of railway.
adjective
- Being four times as long, as big or as many of something.
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Examples of "quadruple" in Sentences
- Huckabee granted clemency to suspect in quadruple ...
- She loves to enjoy what she calls a quadruple draught.
- Matt Hughes, Wyatt Allen, J. Sloan DuRoss and Sam Stitt rowed to bronze in quadruple sculls, which had no heats or semifinals.
- Citizen Holdings gained 0.2% on a Nikkei report that the watch maker's April-September group operating profit was expected to quadruple from a year earlier to around seven billion yen ($84.3 million).
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