quadruple
UK/ˈkwɒd.ɹʊ.pəl//kwɑˈdɹu.pəl/
quadruple adjective: being four times as long, as big or as many of something.
Adjective
quadruple (not comparable)
- Being four times as long, as big or as many of something.
- He's quite an athlete and can do quadruple jumps with ease.
Verb
quadruple (third-person singular simple present quadruples, present participle quadrupling, simple past and past participle quadrupled)
- To multiply by four.
- Quadrupling four gives sixteen.
- To increase by a factor of four.
- Our profits quadrupled when we made the improvements.
- Overall, consumer spending on fast tech has quadrupled to £11.6bn since 2023, surveys carried out for Material Focus suggested.2025 June 25, Chris Vallance, “'Fast tech' warning as demand for cheap gadgets heats up”, in BBC, archived from the original on 26 Jun 2025
- To provide four parallel running lines on a given stretch of railway.
- On June 8, 1872, the London & North Western Railway obtained powers to quadruple its main line, and a new tunnel was bored for the up and down slow lines.1950 September, “Network News: Watford Tunnel, L.M.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 641
- Quadrupling the short remaining stretch of three-track railway north of Rugby, left over by the turn of the century modernisation, is a possibility that could be pursued.2019 October, “Railtalk: HS2 delay - time for lateral thinking”, in Modern Railways, page 7
Noun
quadruple (plural quadruples)
quadruple meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
quadruple in Hindi
- being four times as long, as big or as many of something
- चहुरा cahurā, चौघरा caughrā, पाव pāv, चौगुना caugunā
- (intransitive) to increase by a factor of four
- चौगुना caugunā
quadruple in Tamil
- நான்முறை
quadruple in Marathi
- चौपट, चौपट करणे, चौपट करण्यासाठी
quadruple in Urdu
- چہار تہہ, چوگنا, چوپرت
More languagesFewer languages
- quadruple in Bengali
- চারগুণ
- quadruple in Telugu
- నాలుగింతలు nālugintalu
- quadruple in Kannada
- ನಾಲ್ಕಾಲಿಗ, ನಾಲ್ಕಾಲ, ನಾಲ್ಮಡಿ, ನಾಲ್ವಡಿ
- quadruple in Punjabi
- چوگنا cauguṇā, ਚੌਗੁਣਾ cauguṇā
- quadruple in Gujarati
- ચોગણું cŏgṇũ
- quadruple in Odia
- ଚତୁର୍ଗୁଣ, ଚାରିଗୁଣିତ, ଚାରିଗୁଣିତ କରିବା
- quadruple in Sanskrit
- चतुर्गुण cáturguṇa
- quadruple in Nepali
- चौगुना, चौगुनी
Examples of quadruple in a sentence
- Because the alarm came in 51 hours late, the search-and-rescue area quadrupled.2026 July 28, Nicholas Muhoro, “The Open Water True Story: How Tom and Eileen Lonergan Were Left Behind at Sea”, in Skip Boring, archived...
- A long-term aspiration is to quadruple the cross-country route between Peterborough and Werrington Junction, removing any conflict between trains on the Spalding and Leicester lines.2020 April 22, Paul Shannon, “Felixstowe: Is 47 trains a day achievable?”, in Rail, page 52:
Synonyms of quadruple
Antonyms
Forms of quadruple
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | quadruples |
| present participle | quadrupling |
| past participle | quadrupled |
| past | quadrupled |
| Noun | |
| plural | quadruples |
Origin of quadruple
From Middle English quadruple, from Latin quadruplus. Can be analyzed as quadri- + -ple.
Words formed from quadruple
- quadruple lock
- quadrupleness
- quadruple stop
- quadruple time
- simple quadruple time
- subquadruple
- Pythagorean quadruple
- quadruple bluff
- quadruple-click
- quadruple double
- quadruple-header
- quadruple-masted
- quadruple scull
- quadruple star
- quadruple star system
- quadruple thread
- quadruple whole
- quadruple whole note
- quadruple witching
- quadruplet
Phrases with quadruple
Words that rhyme with quadruple
Questions about quadruple
- What does quadruple mean?
- Quadruple means being four times as long, as big or as many of something.
- What is quadruple in Hindi?
- Quadruple in Hindi is चहुरा (cahurā), चौघरा (caughrā), पाव (pāv). See Quadruple meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use quadruple in a sentence?
- Because the alarm came in 51 hours late, the search-and-rescue area quadrupled.
- What part of speech is quadruple?
- Quadruple can be an adjective, a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce quadruple?
- Quadruple is pronounced /ˈkwɒd.ɹʊ.pəl/ (UK).
Words near quadruple in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: quadruple (page history and authors); quadruple (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); quadruple (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); quadruple (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); quadruple (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); నాలుగింతలు (Telugu) (page history and authors); quadruple (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); چوگنا (Punjabi) (page history and authors); ચોગણું (Gujarati) (page history and authors); quadruple (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); चतुर्गुण (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); quadruple (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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