英语词汇“quadruply”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

quadruple /kwodˈrə-pl or (esp Scot) -rooˈ/

adjective

Fourfold

Having four parts, members or divisions

noun

Four times as much

A coin worth four pistoles (historical)

transitive verb

To increase fourfold, multiply by four

To equal four times

intransitive verb

To become four times as much

ORIGIN: Fr, from L quadruplus, from the root of plēre to fill

quadˈruplet (or /-rooˈ/) noun

Any combination of four things

One of four (children or animals) born at one birth (informal short form quad)

A group of four notes performed in the time of three (music)

A cycle for four riders

quadˈruply /-pli or -rooˈpli/ adverb

In a fourfold manner

Quadruple Alliance noun

A league formed in 1718 by Britain, France, Austria and Holland against Spain, or one formed in 1813 by Britain, Prussia, Austria and Russia against Napoleon

quadruple time noun (music)

A time with four beats to the bar

quadruplex /kwodˈrə-pleks/

adjective

Fourfold
(of a Morse telegraphic system) capable of sending four messages at once, two each way, over one wire

noun

An instrument of this kind
A videotape recording and reproduction system using four rotating heads to produce transverse tracks on magnetic tape

transitive verb

To make quadruplex

ORIGIN: L quadruplex, -icis fourfold, from plicāre, -ātum to fold

quadruˈplicate adjective

Fourfold

noun

One of four corresponding things
Fourfoldness

transitive verb

To make fourfold

quadruplicāˈtion noun

quadruplicity /-plisˈi-ti/ noun

quadˈruply /-plī/ noun (Scots law)

A reply to a triply

quadruple /kwodˈrə-pl or (esp Scot) -rooˈ/

quadruplex /kwodˈrə-pleks/