Meanings
- not comparableBeing four times as long, as big or as many of something.
He's quite an athlete and can do quadruple jumps with ease.
present singular third person quadruples · participle present quadrupling · participle past quadrupled · past quadrupled
- intransitiveTo increase by a factor of four.
Our profits quadrupled when we made the improvements.
2 more examples
Overall, consumer spending on fast tech has quadrupled to £11.6bn since 2023, surveys carried out for Material Focus suggested.
2025 June 25, Chris Vallance, “'Fast tech' warning as demand for cheap gadgets heats up”, in BBC, archived from the original on 26 Jun 2025[…] by 10.20 pm, the Australian national search and rescue authority was mobilised. Because the alarm came in 51 hours late, the search-and-rescue area quadrupled.
2026 July 28, Nicholas Muhoro, “The Open Water True Story: How Tom and Eileen Lonergan Were Left Behind at Sea”, in Skip Boring, archived from the original on 29 Jul 2026 - rail transportTo 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.
1950 September, “Network News: Watford Tunnel, L.M.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 6412 more examples
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.
2019 October 28, “Railtalk: HS2 delay - time for lateral thinking”, in Modern Railways, page 7A 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.
2020 April 22, Paul Shannon, “Felixstowe: Is 47 trains a day achievable?”, in Rail, page 52
plural quadruples
- Something that is four times the usual number, amount, size, etc.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA figure-skating jump with four revolutions in the air.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivehaving four units or components
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinquadruplus
- Middle Englishquadruple
- Englishquadruple
From Middle English quadruple, from Latin quadruplus. Can be analyzed as quadri- + -ple.
More words from Middle English, Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian четворен, учетворен
- четворен (četvoren)being four times as long, as big or as many of something
- учетворен (učetvoren)being four times as long, as big or as many of something
- учетворявам (učetvorjavam)to multiply by four
Catalan quàdruple
- quàdruplebeing four times as long, as big or as many of something
Danish firedobbelt
- firedobbeltbeing four times as long, as big or as many of something
Dutch viervoud, verviervoudigen
- viervoudbeing four times as long, as big or as many of something
- verviervoudigento multiply by four
Esperanto kvarobligi
- kvarobligito multiply by four
Estonian neljakordne, neljakordistama
- neljakordnebeing four times as long, as big or as many of something
- neljakordistamato multiply by four
- neljakordistuma(intransitive) to increase by a factor of four
Finnish nelinkertainen, nelinkertaistaa
- nelinkertainenbeing four times as long, as big or as many of something
- nelinkertaistaato multiply by four
German vierfach, vervierfachen
- vierfachbeing four times as long, as big or as many of something
- vervierfachento multiply by four
Hindi चहुरा, चौघरा
- चहुरा (cahurā)being four times as long, as big or as many of something
- चौघरा (caughrā)being four times as long, as big or as many of something
- पाव (pāv)being four times as long, as big or as many of something
- चौगुना (caugunā)being four times as long, as big or as many of something
- चौगुना (caugunā)(intransitive) to increase by a factor of four
Hungarian négyszer akkora/annyi, négyszerez
- négyszer akkora/annyibeing four times as long, as big or as many of something
- négyszerezto multiply by four
- megnégyszerezto multiply by four
- megnégyszereződik(intransitive) to increase by a factor of four
- négyszeresére nő(intransitive) to increase by a factor of four
Icelandic fjórfaldur, fjórfalda
- fjórfaldurbeing four times as long, as big or as many of something
- fjórfaldato multiply by four
- fjórfaldast(intransitive) to increase by a factor of four
Irish ceathrúil
- ceathrúilbeing four times as long, as big or as many of something
Italian quadruplice, quadruplo
- quadruplicebeing four times as long, as big or as many of something
- quadruplobeing four times as long, as big or as many of something
- quadruplicareto multiply by four
Japanese 四倍, 四重
- 四倍being four times as long, as big or as many of something
- 四重being four times as long, as big or as many of something
- 四倍する (yombai suru)to multiply by four
Latin quadruplus, quadruplex
- quadruplusbeing four times as long, as big or as many of something
- quadruplexbeing four times as long, as big or as many of something
- quadruplicōto multiply by four
Māori whakareawhā
- whakareawhāto multiply by four
Norwegian firedobbelt, kvadruppelt
- firedobbeltbeing four times as long, as big or as many of something
- kvadruppeltbeing four times as long, as big or as many of something
- firedobleto multiply by four
- kvadrupleto multiply by four
Polish poczwórny, poczworzyć
- poczwórnybeing four times as long, as big or as many of something
- poczworzyćto multiply by four
- poczwarzaćto multiply by four
Portuguese quádruplo, quadruplicar
- quádruplobeing four times as long, as big or as many of something
- quadruplicarto multiply by four
Romanian cvadruplu
- cvadruplubeing four times as long, as big or as many of something
Russian четверно́й, учетверя́ть
- четверно́й (četvernój)being four times as long, as big or as many of something
- учетверя́ть (učetverjátʹ)to multiply by four
- учетвери́ть (učetverítʹ)to multiply by four
Spanish cuádruple, cuádruplo
- cuádruplebeing four times as long, as big or as many of something
- cuádruplobeing four times as long, as big or as many of something
- cuadruplicarto multiply by four
Swedish fyrdubbel, fyrfaldig
- fyrdubbelbeing four times as long, as big or as many of something
- fyrfaldigbeing four times as long, as big or as many of something
- kvadrupelbeing four times as long, as big or as many of something
- fyrdubblato multiply by four
Welsh pedwarplyg
- pedwarplygbeing four times as long, as big or as many of something
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with quadruple
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Cite this entry
quadruple. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quadruple
“quadruple.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quadruple. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “quadruple,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quadruple.
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