quadruple
Appearance
[a], [b] ← 3 | 4 | 5 → |
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Cardinal: four Ordinal: fourth Multiplier: quadruple Distributive: quadruply Fractional: quarter, fourth Number of musicians: quartet |
Pronunciation
[change]Adjective
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Comparative |
Superlative |
- If something is quadruple, it is 300% bigger than something else.
- He's quite an athlete and can do quadruple jumps with ease.
Verb
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Present participle |
- (transitive) If you quadruple something, you multiply it by four.
- Quadrupling four gives sixteen.
- (intransitive) If something quadruples, it increases by a factor of four.
- Our profits quadrupled when we made the improvements.