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单词 quadrupla
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quadruplan.adj.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin quadrupla.
Etymology: As noun (in sense A.) < post-classical Latin quadrupla (13th cent.; also 1517 in the passage translated in quot. 1609 at sense A.), use as noun (short for quadrupla proportio quadruple proportion) of feminine of classical Latin quadruplus quadruple adj. As adjective (in sense B.) < post-classical Latin quadrupla (6th cent. in Boethius in quadrupla proportio ), feminine of classical Latin quadruplus quadruple adj.
Obsolete.
A. n.
Music. A tempo or time signature having four crotchets or quavers in a bar; = quadruple time n. at quadruple n., adj., and adv. Compounds.
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quadruplaa1450
measure time1626
quick time1712
tempo giusto1724
tempo rubato1724
tittuping1780
rubato1855
double time1877
strict tempo1936
half-time1938
tranquillo1980
a1450 Musical Treat. in Speculum (1935) 10 265 (MED) It is quadrupla, as 4 to 1, 8 to 2, 12 to 3, & so forþe qvindupla, sexdupla, sepdupla, ocdupla, & so vpward endlesli.
1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 31 Quadrupla is a proportion deminishing [sic] the value of the notes to the quarter of that which they were before, & it is perceiued in singing, when a number is set before the song, comprehending another foure times.
1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus ii. xiii. 64 The Quadrupla [L. Quadrupla] is the third kind of the Multiplex, and is, when a greater number doth comprehend a lesse in it selfe four times, as 8 to 2 12 to 3. But Musically, when 4. Notes are founded to one: the signes of it are these {⁴₁ ⁸₂}..[etc.].
B. adj.
Mathematics. Four times as many or as much; quadruple.
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1557 R. Record Whetstone of Witte sig. Biv If it containe it .4. tymes, then is it [sc. the proportion] quadrupla, or quadruple.
1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. v. f. 127v If the antecedent contayne the consequent iustly twice, it is called dupla proportion... If 4. tymes quadrupla as 12. to 3.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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