dectuple

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UK/ˈdɛktuːp(ə)l/US/ˈdɛktʊp(ə)l/

adjective

Tenfold.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

adjectivedectuple (not comparable)
  1. 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
noundectuple (plural dectuples)

plural dectuples

  1. 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
verbdectuple (third-person singular simple present dectuples, present participle dectupling, simple past and past participle dectupled)

present singular third person dectuples · participle present dectupling · participle past dectupled · past dectupled

  1. 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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APA

dectuple. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dectuple

MLA

“dectuple.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dectuple. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dectuple,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dectuple.

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