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quadruplicate
[ noun adjective kwo-droo-pli-kit; verb kwo-droo-pli-keyt ]
noun
- one of four copies or identical items, especially copies of typewritten material.
adjective
- consisting of four identical parts.
- pertaining to a fourth item or copy of something.
verb (used with object)
- to produce or copy in quadruplicate.
- to make four times as great.
quadruplicate
adjective
- fourfold or quadruple
verb
- to multiply or be multiplied by four
noun
- a group or set of four things
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Derived Forms
- quadˌrupliˈcation, noun
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Other Words From
- quad·rupli·cation quad·ru·pli·ca·ture [kwo-, droo, -pli-k, uh, -cher], noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of quadruplicate1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of quadruplicate1
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Idioms and Phrases
- in quadruplicate, in four identical copies.
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Example Sentences
I will not repeat what I have said on this subject in my last, a quadruplicate of which is enclosed, as is also a cypher.
Most common is the "quadruplicate" arrangement, with four sets of laminae of differing depths.
Army accounting is wholly unlike civilian, books being dispensed with and accounts of all kinds being made in quadruplicate.
There was the matter of the wedding, which was now to be in quadruplicate.
We must not, however, fall into his own mistake and quadruplicate to his duply.
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