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- Dictionaryquadruple/ˈkwɒdrʊpl/
adjective
- 1. consisting of four parts or elements: "a quadruple murder"
verb
- 1. increase or be increased fourfold: "oil prices quadrupled in the 1970s"
noun
- 1. a quadruple number or amount.
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QUADRUPLE definition: 1. to become four times as big, or to multiply a number or amount by four: 2. four times as big…. Learn more.
The meaning of QUADRUPLE is to make four times as great or as many. How to use quadruple in a sentence.
1. verb. If someone quadruples an amount or if it quadruples, it becomes four times bigger. Norway has quadrupled its exports to the E.U. [VERB noun] The price has quadrupled in the last few years. [VERB] 2. predeterminer. If one amount is quadruple another amount, it is four times bigger.
QUADRUPLE meaning: 1. to become four times as big, or to multiply a number or amount by four: 2. four times as big…. Learn more.
a number, amount, etc., four times as great as another. something, as a series of acrobatic somersaults, made up of four clearly defined parts or stages: the first trapeze artist to perform a quadruple successfully.
When something is made up of four parts, you can describe it using the adjective quadruple, like a young gymnast's quadruple somersault. A common use of quadruple is in the medical term " quadruple bypass," which is a type of heart surgery that involves all four chambers of the patient's heart.
n. A fourfold amount or number. tr. & intr.v. quad·ru·pled, quad·ru·pling, quad·ru·ples. To multiply or be multiplied by four: quadrupled the order; quadrupled in size.
You use quadruple to indicate that something has four parts or happens four times.
QUADRUPLE definition: If an amount quadruples, it becomes multiplied by four, or if you quadruple it, you multiply it by…. Learn more.
quadruple. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English quad‧ru‧ple1 /ˈkwɒdrʊpəl, kwɒˈdruː- $ kwɑːˈdruː-/ verb [ intransitive, transitive] to increase and become four times as big or as high, or to make something increase in this way → double, triple Food prices quadrupled during the war.
