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quattuordecuple en · ADJ

Etymology

From Latin quattuor + decuple.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable, rare) Fourteenfold.
   • We obtained a pyl quattuordecuple mutant and found that it was severely impaired in growth and failed to produce seeds. 2018 June 12, Yang Zhao, Zhengjing Zhang, Jinghui Gao, Pengcheng Wang, Tao Hu, Zegang Wang, Yueh-Ju Hou, Yizhen Wan, Wenshan Liu, Shaojun Xie, Tianjiao Lu, Liang Xue, Yajie Liu, Alberto P. Macho, W. Andy Tao, Ray A. Bressan, Jian-Kang Zhu, “Arabidopsis Duodecuple Mutant of PYL ABA Receptors Reveals PYL Repression of ABA-Independent SnRK2 Activity”, in Cell Reports, volume 23, number 11, Cell Press, page 3340:
   • Quattuordecuple-check. [image: “Me checking crypto address before any transaction”] 2022 March 26, Sead Fadilpašić, “Choppy Bitcoin & Ethereum Movements, Mulling Regulators, Scamy Hackers and 20 Crypto Jokes”, in Cryptonews.com:
   • Optical identification of single- to quattuordecuple-layer (1L-14L) WSe₂ nanosheets on 90 nm SiO₂/Si 2013 October 16, Hai Li, Jumiati Wu, Xiao Huang, Gang Lu, Jian Yang, Xin Lu, Qihua Xiong, Hua Zhang, “Rapid and reliable thickness identification of two-dimensional nanosheets using optical microscopy”, in ACS Nano, volume 7, number 11, pages 10344–10353:
   • Both albums have attained diamond status in the United States, with The Dark Side of the Moon attaining quattuordecuple-platinum status and The Wall attaining treviguple-platinum status as of 2019. 2020, Melissa Ursula Dawn Goldsmith, “Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon”, in Listen to Classic Rock!: Exploring a Musical Genre, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 181:
   • The problem was that schools began expecting dialogues to appear in students’ books. Conversations going backwards and forwards between learner and teacher. People wrote comments, which were responded to, then a new comment appeared, which again was responded to, and then a new comment was written ………. Marking had become not triple impact but quintuple, nonuple, quattuordecuple and maybe centuple impact marking. A well-intentioned idea had spiralled out of control. 2020, David Fawcett, “For all the time and effort, is feedback actually worth it?”, in Relearning to Teach: Understanding the Principles of Great Teaching, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 127:
   • The exceptionally small size of JUNIOR COMPACT manipulators makes it possible to accommodate 8–14 manipulators (octuple–quattuordecuple patch-clamp recordings) at a standard microscope or to realize a 20-patch (viguple patch-clamp recordings) system on a 360° ring structure with a modified microscope. 2015 February 5, Guangfu Wang, Daniel R Wyskiel, Weiguo Yang, Yiqing Wang, Lana C Milbern, Txomin Lalanne, Xiaolong Jiang, Ying Shen, Qian-Quan Sun, J Julius Zhu, “An optogenetics- and imaging-assisted simultaneous multiple patch-clamp recording system for decoding complex neural circuits”, in Nature Protocols, volume 10, number 3, page 397:
   • He chunked a wedge 20 yards short of the green, advanced his next pitch just five yards, then half-shanked his 14th shot to the back-right of the putting surface — above the hole, which is not where you want to be on the sloping green. He cautiously tapped that putt but not cautiously enough; it nearly rolled off the green, leaving himself 15 feet back up the hill. A tidy two-putt from there and Birrell had made a 17. Yep, a quattuordecuple-bogey. 2022 July 22, Alan Bastable, “‘How the f— do you play this?’ Why this brutal par-3 torments even the pros”, in Golf.com:
   • We further investigated the stomatal high-VPD response in a B2-, B3-, and B4-family Raf-like kinase quattuordecuple mutant, OK-quatdec (raf16/raf40/RAF24^(Δ10)/raf18/raf20/raf35/RAF42^(Δ6)/m3kδ1;raf3/m3kδ7;raf4/m3kδ6;raf5/raf7/raf8/raf9/raf10), in which the mutations in 14 Raf-like M3K kinase genes were confirmed, as described in Materials and Methods. 2021 September 23, Po-Kai Hsu, Yohei Takahashi, Ebe Merilo, Alex Costa, Li Zhang, Klara Kernig, Katie H. Lee, Julian I. Schroeder, “Raf-like kinases and receptor-like (pseudo)kinase GHR1 are required for stomatal vapor pressure difference response”, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, volume 118, number 47: