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    Quadruple means four times as much or four times as many. As a verb, to quadruple something means to multiply it by four — "the company's profits quadrupled in five years" means they became four times bigger.

    四倍的；使成四倍

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組成Latin quadr- ("four") + -uple (an ending used for multiples, like in "double" and "triple").

同家族的字

  • quadrantshares the Latin root quadr-, "four"
  • quartershares the Latin root quadr-, "four" — a quarter is one of four equal parts

原始詞典資料6 筆記錄

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quadrupleadj/ˈkwɒd.ɹʊ.pəl/

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

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

quadrupleverb/ˈkwɒd.ɹʊ.pəl/

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    To multiply by four.

    • Quadrupling four gives sixteen.
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    To increase by a factor of four.

    • Our profits quadrupled when we made the improvements.
    • Overall, consumer spending on fast tech has quadrupled to £11.6bn since 2023, surveys carried out for Material Focus suggested.
  • 3

    rail-transportrailwaystransportTo provide four parallel running lines on a given stretch of railway.

    • On June 8, 1872, the London & North Western Railway obtained powers to quadruple its main line, and a new tunnel was bored for the up and down slow lines.
    • Quadrupling the short remaining stretch of three-track railway north of Rugby, left over by the turn of the century modernisation, is a possibility that could be pursued.

quadruplenoun/ˈkwɒd.ɹʊ.pəl/

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    Something that is four times the usual number, amount, size, etc.

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    hobbieslifestyleskatingA figure-skating jump with four revolutions in the air.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。