Meanings
- not comparableTenfold.
All longitudinal seams are dectuple riveted.
1916 January, “Pacific Type of Locomotive for the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad”, in Railway and Locomotive Engineering, page 20
plural dectuples
- A group of ten.
Thus, this is our commencement address as the laboratory phonology community “graduates” to its second dectuple of meetings.
2010, Janet B. Pierrehumbert, Cynthia G. Clopper, “What is LabPhon? And where is it going?”, in Cécile Fougeron, Barbara Kuehnert, Mariapaola Imperio, Nathalie Vallee, editors, Laboratory Phonology 10, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN
present singular third person dectuples · participle present dectupling · participle past dectupled · past dectupled
- To multiply by ten.
Many costs have really, genuinely dectupled, with no economic or statistical trickery involved.
2017 April 11, Scott Alexander, “Notes on Cost Disease”, in The American Interest, volume 12, number 5, →ISSN
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