Quadruplicate

//ˌkwɑˈdɹuːplɪkət// adj, noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    in quadruplicate: four times over, in four copies

    "Four times Cupid's debtor I-- / Bankrupt in quadruplicate."

  2. 2
    any four copies; any of four things that correspond to one another exactly wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To replicate four times; to make fourfold; to quadruple.
  2. 2
    reproduce fourfold wordnet
Adjective
  1. 1
    having four parts not-comparable

    "The small schools might specialize upon the type locally most desirable, the larger might group its triplicate (or quadruplicate) system of sustained and serious courses about a common Library […]"

  2. 2
    four times over, multiplied by four not-comparable

    "[…] Fortune, who delights in making the miner or the lumber-man a quadruplicate millionaire and in "busting" the railroad king."

Adjective
  1. 1
    having four units or components wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
quadruplexbiquadratebiquadraticchip off the old blockclonecopy

Example

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"The small schools might specialize upon the type locally most desirable, the larger might group its triplicate (or quadruplicate) system of sustained and serious courses about a common Library […]"

Etymology

From Latin quadruplicatus.

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