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quadruplicate

US/ˌkwɑˈdɹuːplɪkət/

quadruplicate adjective: having four parts.

Adjective

quadruplicate (not comparable)

  1. having four parts
    • The small schools might specialize upon the type locally most desirable, the larger might group its triplicate (or quadruplicate) system of sustained and serious courses about a common Library […]1903, H.G. Wells, Mankind in the Making
  2. four times over, multiplied by four
    • […] Fortune, who delights in making the miner or the lumber-man a quadruplicate millionaire and in "busting" the railroad king.1891, Rudyard Kipling, American Notes

Noun

quadruplicate (plural quadruplicates)

  1. One of four copies of something.
    • quadruplicates of the receipts
    • […] quadruplicates, were run only for those triplicates yielding 20 % or more of the population. Quadruplicates were examined for combinations where each of the verbal and gesture / sign language variables accounted for 5 % or more of the […]1979, AAESPH Review of the American Association for the Education of the Severely/Profoundly Handicapped, volume 4, page 47
  2. In quadruplicate: four times over, in four copies.
    • Four times Cupid's debtor I-- / Bankrupt in quadruplicate.c. 1886, Rudyard Kipling, The Lovers' Litany

Verb

quadruplicate (third-person singular simple present quadruplicates, present participle quadruplicating, simple past and past participle quadruplicated)

  1. To replicate four times; to make fourfold; to quadruple.

quadruplicate meaning in Tamil and Urdu

quadruplicate in Tamil

நான்கு படிகளான, நான்கு படிகளையுடைய, நான்மடியான படிகளையுடைய

quadruplicate in Urdu

چار گنا

Forms of quadruplicate

Noun
pluralquadruplicates
Verb
third-person singular presentquadruplicates
present participlequadruplicating
past participlequadruplicated
pastquadruplicated

Origin of quadruplicate

From Latin quadruplicatus.

Questions about quadruplicate

What does quadruplicate mean?
Quadruplicate means having four parts.
What is quadruplicate in Tamil?
Quadruplicate in Tamil is நான்கு படிகளான, நான்கு படிகளையுடைய, நான்மடியான படிகளையுடைய. See Quadruplicate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is quadruplicate?
Quadruplicate can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce quadruplicate?
Quadruplicate is pronounced /ˌkwɑˈdɹuːplɪkət/ (US).

Words near quadruplicate in the dictionary

  1. quadruplets
  2. quadruplex
  3. quadruplexed
  4. quadruplexes
  5. quadruplexing
  6. quadruplicate
  7. quadruplicated
  8. quadruplicates
  9. quadruplicating
  10. quadruplication
  11. quadruplications

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quadruplicate (page history and authors); quadruplicate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); quadruplicate (Urdu Wiktionary) (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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