Word Finder - quadruple

definition

To multiply by four.

example

Quadrupling four gives sixteen.

definition

To increase by a factor of four.

example

Our profits quadrupled when we made the improvements.

definition

To provide four parallel running lines on a given stretch of railway.

definition

Being four times as long, as big or as many of something.

example

He's quite an athlete and can do quadruple jumps with ease.

Her mind went to the quadruple locks on the front door and bars on the window.

The press is practically four quadruple machines built together, each of which can be worked independently of the other.

The quantity imported in 1899 was double that in 1890, and quadruple that in 1885.

The quadruple machine is a favourite one and is perhaps most in demand for newspaper work.

Mr Clinton, 60, who underwent a quadruple heart bypass two years ago, is a former junk food addict.

Made her senior GB debut in 2000 in the lightweight quadruple scull.

There was a quadruple lock system on it, requiring not only two thumbprints, but a code, a retinal scan, and another sensor pad he didn't recognize.

She took in the multistory, quadruple A-frame lodge that would become her new home.

However, after an inspirational recovery he became the first quadruple amputee to climb Ben Nevis and climbs rock routes graded Very Severe.

This number does not include animal burials, nor does it include the possible prehistoric quadruple horse burial.

He was 57 and had seemed to be making a good recovery from his quadruple heart bypass two weeks before.

The unit has a backward facing quadruple nosepiece, with objectives x4, x10, x40 and x100 (oil ).

Left; Ammunition boxes still remain intact filled with shells, I shot this image just above the aft quadruple pom Pom pom guns.

The range for x can be further extended by using quadruple precision for the input x and related variables (see LONG WRITE-UP ).

Doubling the frame size will quadruple the file size File Size.

You can easily quadruple your traffic in 90 - 120 days by implementing the following procedures.

Britain has also qualified a men's open quadruple scull for the Games.

Britain's second Bronze medal was won by the women's quadruple scull.

The Antenatal Screening Service offer the Integrated test, first trimester combined test and second trimester combined test and second trimester Quadruple test.

Private housing will receive a quadruple whammy of three tax increases and higher interest rates that should flatten the market outside the hotspots.

This is the explanation of those concessions in the Eastern Question which ended in the Quadruple Alliance of 1840 and the humiliation of Louis Philippe's government (see Mehemet Ali).

The central target in the strategy is to quadruple the amount of cycling trips (based on 1996 figures), by 2012.

Its target was to quadruple the number of journeys by bike by 2012 from a two percent base.

British rowing 's last medal hope lay with the men 's quadruple scullers, but they finished a disappointing sixth in their semi-final.

This should be used on systems where complex numbers are not available in quadruple precision.

Cost The cost of the quadruple test is £ 80.

These now expensive hot stocks will never double, triple or quadruple in value like a penny stock can.

Supachai is also a quadruple gold medal winner at the Paralympics, and a triple world record holder.

The senior Girls ' finished seventh in the quadruple sculls event with a very strong race, an improved result from last year.

Britain has also qualified a men 's open quadruple scull for the Games.

The boys quadruple scull event, the Fawley Cup, like the eights event, attracts many crews from around the world.

Britain 's second Bronze medal was won by the women 's quadruple scull.

The Antenatal Screening Service offer the Integrated test, first trimester Combined test and second trimester Quadruple test.

Some of the products from this famed company do double, triple, or even quadruple duty.

Many of Urban's singles, videos and albums have received certified gold, platinum, double platinum, triple platinum and quadruple platinum status.

In that case, the test is called a quadruple screen.

The triple or quadruple screen does not tell you if your baby definitely has a problem.

Unfortunately, for every growth in the number of black men/white women couples and black women/white men couples, I believe there's more than quadruple the number of new people who join hate groups every day.

However, you may be astounded to find out that your next box will cost double, triple, even more than quadruple your first set.

Working these figures out on a spread sheet, you can quickly see the results of these double, triple or quadruple payments.

To date, over 8 million copies have been sold, achieving quadruple platinum status in the United States, as well as multi-platinum certification in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand.

On the 2nd of August 1718, accordingly, Charles joined the Triple Alliance, henceforth the Quadruple Alliance.

Fifty towers, decorated with quadruple faces of Brahma, are built at intervals upon the galleries, the whole temple ranking as perhaps the most remarkable of the Khmer remains.

Oporto was field by a revolutionary junta, and Saldanha, who had become prime minister, persuaded the Quadruple Alliance to intervene.

Declared free and neutral in 1691, Leghorn was permanently invested with these privileges by the Quadruple Alliance in 1718; but in 1796 Napoleon seized all the hostile vessels in its port.

The Quadruple or Grand Alliance of 1814, defined in the treaty of Chaumont, between Great Britain, Austria, Russia and Prussia, had for its object the overthrow of Napoleon and his dynasty, and the confining of France within her traditional boundaries.

A quadruple machine will produce 48,000 copies per hour of four, six or eight pages; and proportionately less of a greater number of pages; all folded, counted and pasted if required.

Lord Palmerston conceived and executed the plan of a quadruple alliance of the constitutional states of the West to serve as a counterpoise to the northern alliance.

It was, therefore, the policy of Bestuzhev to bring about a quadruple alliance between Russia, Austria, Great Britain and Saxony, to counterpoise the Franco-Prussian league.

Calippus, Therefore, Proposed To Quadruple The Period Of Meton, And Deduct One Day At The End Of That Time By Changing One Of The Full Months Into A Deficient Month.