quadruple

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Being four times as long, as big or as many of something.

   • He's quite an athlete and can do quadruple jumps with ease.
2. 2

   To multiply by four.

   • Quadrupling four gives sixteen.
3. 3

   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.
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   1. 4

      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.
      • 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.
      • 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.
   2. 5

      Something that is four times the usual number, amount, size, etc.

   3. 6

      A figure-skating jump with four revolutions in the air.

The neighborhood

• antonymquarter
• neighborsingle
• neighborsolo
• neighbordouble
• neighbortwofold
• neighbortriple
• neighborthreefold
• neighborquadruple
• neighborfourfold
• neighborquintuple
• neighborpentuple
• neighborfivefold
• neighborloner