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 quadruple ['kwɒdrupl]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 四倍的, 四重的, 四部分组成的

n. 四倍

vt. 使成四倍

vi. 成为四倍




    quadruple
    [ noun ]
    1. a set of four similar things considered as a unit

      2. <noun.group>
    2. a quantity that is four times as great as another

      3. <noun.cognition>
    [ verb ]
    1. increase fourfold

      2. <verb.change>
      His stock earning quadrupled
    [ adj ]
    1. having four units or components

      2. <adj.all>
      quadruple rhythm has four beats per measure
      quadruplex wire
    2. four times as great or many

      3. <adj.all>
      a fourfold increase in the dosage


    Quadruple \Quad"ru*ple\, a. [L. quadruplus, from quattuor four:
    cf. F. quadruple. See {Quadrate}, and cf. {Double}.]
    Fourfold; as, to make quadruple restitution; a quadruple
    alliance.

    {Quadruple time} (Mus.), that in which each measure is
    divided into four equal parts.


    Quadruple \Quad"ru*ple\, n. [Cf. F. quadruple, L. quadruplum.]
    four times the sum or number; a fourfold amount; as, to
    receive to quadruple of the amount in damages.


    Quadruple \Quad"ru*ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Quadrupled}; p.
    pr. & vb. n. {Quadrupling}.] [L. quadruplare: cf. F.
    quadrupler.]
    To multiply by four; to increase fourfold; to double; to
    double twice. --A. Smith.


    Quadruple \Quad"ru*ple\, v. i.
    To be multiplied by four; to increase fourfold; to become
    four times as much.

    1. The company expects the number to quadruple by year-end.
    2. Roselle Como, wife of singer Perry Como, is recovering from quadruple bypass coronary surgery that she underwent at the Heart Center at Duke Hospital on May 26.
    3. The quadruple strand of pearls around her neck?
    4. Such enterprises are to quadruple in the next five-year plan, from 1991-1996.
    5. The Ministry of Finance estimates Japanese direct investment in Asia will hit about $8 billion this year, quadruple the level of 1986.
    6. That's great for East German consumers, whose purchasing power will quadruple. But it will be a heavy blow to East German companies, which will have to prove they can pay wages and interest in West German currency.
    7. Uder the new contract with Orange Cove, the cost of federal water would quadruple from $3.50 to $14.94 per acre foot, he said.
    8. Another $5 billion of existing RJR debt also could become downgraded to junk bonds in the processs since the acquistion will more than quadruple the company's existing debt to $22.3 billion.
    9. "I stole the money because I thought I could quadruple it through gambling _ and then I would give half to the company I stole it from," said a letter apparently written by Edward Leigh Hunt Jr., a federal fugitive.
    10. However, the turnout of Republicans may triple or quadruple with 75,000 to 100,000 expected to vote.
    11. RJR's debt load will more than quadruple under Kohlberg, which is using only a fraction of its own money for the purchase and will borrow the rest using RJR's assets as collateral, in what is commonly called a leveraged buyout.
    12. At midnight tonight tough new rules aimed at driving 'cowboys' out of the waste management industry come into force. The effect, according to waste companies, will be to treble or quadruple the cost of rubbish disposal by the end of the decade.
    13. A spokesman for the banking company said the acquisition will quadruple its customer base and trading volume.
    14. Lujan did say the price of the water will more than quadruple, and price and other terms could be affected by the review.
    15. The climbing prices triggered a string of technical buy-stops _ decisions made by price-chart considerations _ and the market broke a "quadruple top" at 12.38 cents and continued rising.
    16. BEAR STEARNS: Long known for its cost-cutting, the firm could post results of 55 cents for the fiscal second quarter, nearly quadruple the weak year-earlier period.
    17. The acquisitions will quadruple the size of the group, which is valued at Pounds 24m at the issue price. It is paying Pounds 3.85m for the entire issued share capital of Rage and Pounds 9.98m for Software Creations.
    18. In 1983, MCA had nine gold and one platinum LPs; by 1988 the figures were 17 gold, eight platinum, four double platinum, two triple platinum and one quadruple platinum record.
    19. And that's less optimistic than the U.S. Energy Department, which looks for steam-coal exports to more than quadruple.
    20. Bread will increase threefold, sugar, medicines and gasoline four times and transportation costs will triple. Vodka prices will quadruple.
    21. He says he expects this year's tariff cuts to quadruple the agency's 1987 sales of 1,500 cars.
    22. Ina Carlson still laughs at life despite two heart attacks and quadruple bypass surgery. "Why not," she says, with a chuckle. "That's what keeps me going.
    23. Terry Pierce, a 52-year-old employee at the Gary plant, was surviving on $96-a-week unemployment checks until he had a quadruple coronary bypass last month.
    24. Prudential Securities Inc., the brokerage unit of Prudential Insurance Co. of America, has hired a training consultant to help it to quadruple its training classes to 600 brokers a year by 1993.
    25. Wavelength-division multiplexing, which transmits data on two wavelengths, was used to quadruple the capacity to 10 gigabits, AT&T said.
    26. The move is expected to quadruple its sales in the US. The company, which is part of Rover vehicles group, will slot the Discovery between its existing US sales of the luxury Range Rover and the utility Defender ranges.
    27. Alumunum Co. of America said Tuesday that high demand for the lightweight metal and strong revenues worldwide helped to nearly quadruple first-quarter earnings to $178.7 million, or $2.02 per share.
    28. But it recently pledged a major offensive to close the gap; among other moves, it plans to quadruple its engineering staff from 1989 levels to 230 this year, and a slew of new products are starting to hit the market.
    29. Yet, by one estimate, the cost of repairing a street or highway that has been allowed to fail is triple or quadruple the cost of maintaining it properly.
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