quadruplicate — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. having four parts

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Examples

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   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 […]

2. four times over, multiplied by four

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Examples

   […] Fortune, who delights in making the miner or the lumber-man a quadruplicate millionaire and in "busting" the railroad king.

Noun

1. One of four copies of something.

   Examples

   quadruplicates of the receipts

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   […] 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 […]

2. In quadruplicate: four times over, in four copies.

   Examples

   Four times Cupid's debtor I-- / Bankrupt in quadruplicate.

Verb

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

   Related words

   triplicateduplicate

Adjective

1. having four units or components

   Synonyms

   quadruplequadruplexfourfoldfour-fold

   Examples

   quadruple rhythm has four beats per measure

   quadruplex wire

Noun

1. any four copies; any of four things that correspond to one another exactly

   Broader terms

   copy

   Examples

   it was signed in quadruplicate

Verb

1. reproduce fourfold

   Broader terms

   reproduce

   Examples

   quadruplicate the bill