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dectuple

UK/ˈdɛktuːp(ə)l/US/ˈdɛktʊp(ə)l/

dectuple adjective: tenfold.

Adjective

dectuple (not comparable)

  1. Tenfold.
    • All longitudinal seams are dectuple riveted.1916 January, “Pacific Type of Locomotive for the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad”, in Railway and Locomotive Engineering, page 20

Noun

dectuple (plural dectuples)

  1. A group of ten.
    • Thus, this is our commencement address as the laboratory phonology community “graduates” to its second dectuple of meetings.2010, Janet B. Pierrehumbert, Cynthia G. Clopper, “What is LabPhon? And where is it going?”, in Cécile Fougeron, Barbara Kuehnert, Mariapaola Imperio, Nathalie Vallee, editors, Laboratory Phonology...

Verb

dectuple (third-person singular simple present dectuples, present participle dectupling, simple past and past participle dectupled)

  1. To multiply by ten.
    • Many costs have really, genuinely dectupled, with no economic or statistical trickery involved.2017 April 11, Scott Alexander, “Notes on Cost Disease”, in The American Interest, volume 12, number 5, →ISSN

Forms of dectuple

Noun
pluraldectuples
Verb
third-person singular presentdectuples
present participledectupling
past participledectupled
pastdectupled

Questions about dectuple

What does dectuple mean?
Dectuple means tenfold.
What part of speech is dectuple?
Dectuple can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce dectuple?
Dectuple is pronounced /ˈdɛktuːp(ə)l/ (UK).

Words near dectuple in the dictionary

  1. dectet
  2. dectets
  3. decticous
  4. dectin
  5. dectins
  6. dectuple
  7. dectupled
  8. dectuples
  9. dectupling
  10. decubation
  11. decubital

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