quadruple
Other forms: quadrupled; quadruples; quadruply
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. You can also use quadruple to mean "four times as many," as when you order a quadruple-shot latte, with four shots of espresso. The Latin root word quadruplare, "make fourfold," comes from the suffix quadri-, or "four."
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having four units or components“quadruple rhythm has four beats per measure”synonyms: four-fold, fourfold, quadruplex, quadruplicatemultiplehaving or involving or consisting of more than one part or entity or individual
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four times as great or many
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increase fourfold
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a set of four similar things considered as a unitsynonyms: quadruplet, quartet, quartettetype of:seta group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used
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a quantity that is four times as great as anothertype of:multiplethe product of a quantity by an integer
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