Dictionary

quadruplicate en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˌkwɑˈdɹuːplɪkət/ (US)

Etymology

From Latin quadruplicatus.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) having four parts
   • The small schools might specialize upon the type locally most desirable, the larger might group its triplicate (or quadruplicate) system of sustained and serious courses about a common Library […] 1903, H.G. Wells, Mankind in the Making:
2. (not-comparable) four times over, multiplied by four
   • […] Fortune, who delights in making the miner or the lumber-man a quadruplicate millionaire and in "busting" the railroad king. 1891, Rudyard Kipling, American Notes:

quadruplicate en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˌkwɑˈdɹuːplɪkət/ (US)

Etymology

From Latin quadruplicatus.

Meanings

1. One of four copies of something.
   • […] quadruplicates, were run only for those triplicates yielding 20 % or more of the population. Quadruplicates were examined for combinations where each of the verbal and gesture / sign language variables accounted for 5 % or more of the […] 1979, AAESPH Review of the American Association for the Education of the Severely/Profoundly Handicapped, volume 4, page 47
   • quadruplicates of the receipts
2. In quadruplicate: four times over, in four copies.
   • Four times Cupid's debtor I-- / Bankrupt in quadruplicate. c. 1886, Rudyard Kipling, The Lovers' Litany:

Forms

quadruplicate en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˌkwɑˈdɹuːplɪkət/ (US)

Etymology

From Latin quadruplicatus.

Meanings

1. To replicate four times; to make fourfold; to quadruple.

Forms

Relateds

triplicate · duplicate