[ noun ] increase by a factor of four <noun.process>
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.
Senior leader Deng Xiaoping in 1978 set the goal of quadrupling China's GNP by the turn of the century.
While the rest of the industry struggled, he emerged as one of the most aggressive buyers in the oil patch, quadrupling Presidio's size through two acquisitions.
The new products, called the FiberWorld family, will significantly improve the speed and quality of voice and data transmissions, as well as quadrupling the capacity of a single fiber-optic strand, according to Northern Telecom.