quadruplicate

• POS: Adjective, Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: quad=ru=pli=cate

CIDE DICTIONARY

quadruplicate, v. t. [L. quadruplicatus, p. p. of quadruplicare, fr. quadruple fourfold. See Quadruplex.].

 To make fourfold; to double twice; to quadruple.  [1913 Webster]

quadruplicate, a. [L. quadruplicatus, p. p.].

•  Fourfold; doubled twice; four times repeated; as, a quadruplicate ratio, or a quadruplicate proportion.  [1913 Webster]
•  Raised to the fourth power.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

quadruplicate, adj. & v.
--adj.
1 fourfold.
2 of which four copies are made.
--v.tr.
1 multiply by four.
2 make four identical copies of.

Idiom

in quadruplicate in four identical copies.

Derivative

quadruplication n.

Etymology

L quadruplicare f. quadruplex -plicis fourfold: cf. QUADRUPED, DUPLEX

THESAURUS

quadruplicate

Photostat, Xerox, biquadrate, biquadratic, clone, copy, counterpart, ditto, double, dupe, duplicate, duplication, facsimile, fourfold, hectograph, make four, manifold, microcopy, microfilm, mimeo, mimeograph, model, multigraph, multiply by four, quadrable, quadrigeminal, quadruple, quadruplex, reduplicate, repetition, replica, replicate, replication, representation, reproduce, reproduction, stat, tetraploid, trace, transcribe, triplicate

ROGET THESAURUS

quadruplicate

Quadruplication

VB multiply by four, quadruplicate, biquadrate.

N quadruplication, fourfold, four times, quadrable, quadrumanous, quadruple, quadruplicate, quadrible, fourth, quadrifoliate, quadrifoliolate, quadrigeminal, quadrigeminate, quadriplanar, quadriserial, four times, in the fourth place, fourthly.