quadrupled
quadrupled is the simple past and past participle of quadruple.
Meaning of quadruple
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.
- 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
Questions about quadrupled
- What is quadrupled the simple past and past participle of?
- Quadrupled is the simple past and past participle of quadruple.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: quadrupled (page history and authors); quadruple (page history and authors). 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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