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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

dectuple en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˈdɛktuːp(ə)l/ (UK)
  • /ˈdɛktʊp(ə)l/ (US)

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Tenfold.
    • 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:

dectuple en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈdɛktuːp(ə)l/ (UK)
  • /ˈdɛktʊp(ə)l/ (US)

Meanings

  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:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
dectuples Number=Plur lexicographic

dectuple en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ˈdɛktuːp(ə)l/ (UK)
  • /ˈdɛktʊp(ə)l/ (US)

Meanings

  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:

Forms

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dectuples Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
dectupling Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
dectupled Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
dectupled Tense=Past lexicographic

Relateds

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