Definition of Quadruples

1. Verb. (third-person singular of quadruple) ¹

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Definition of Quadruples

1. quadruple [v] - See also: quadruple

Lexicographical Neighbors of Quadruples

quadruple-clicks
quadruple amputation
quadruple bluff
quadruple double
quadruple rhythm
quadruple scull
quadruple star
quadruple star system
quadruple star systems
quadruple stars
quadruple thread
quadruple time
quadruple witching
quadrupled
quadrupleness
quadruples
quadruplet
quadruplets
quadruplex
quadruplexes
quadruplexing
quadruplexings
quadruplicate
quadruplicated
quadruplicates
quadruplicating
quadruplication
quadruplications
quadruplicities
quadruplicity

Literary usage of Quadruples

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Common-place Book by Robert Southey, John Wood Warter (1850)
"He made a book concerning homonymous sainte, and there were 855, all having their doubles, trebles, quadruples or more : so had saints swarmed in those days ..."

2. The Marine Steam Engine: Its Construction, Action and Management. A Manual by Carl Busley (1902)
"The firm of CRAMP & SONS of Philadelphia adopted two four- cramp's c-ank quadruples in their new fast steamer "St. Louis1' of the American Line, ..."

3. Evenings with Prince Cambacérès, Second Consul, Arch-chancellor of the by Étienne Léon Lamothe-Langon (1838)
"... female sleep-walker—A physician—M. Mialhe—Human pride—The island of St. Louis and the gambling house, an anecdote—The two quadruples, an anecdote. ..."

4. Evenings with Prince Cambacérès, Second Consul, Arch-chancellor of the by Étienne Léon Lamothe-Langon (1837)
"... female sleep-walker—A physician—M. Mialhe—Human pride—The island of St. Louis and the gambling house, an anecdote—The two quadruples, an anecdote. ..."

5. America and the American Church by Henry Caswall (1839)
"The Church quadruples its numbers in twenty-four years.—Missionary Society established.—Alexandria Seminary, Kenyon College, and Kentucky Seminary ..."

6. The Quadruplex by William Maver, Minor M. Davis (1884)
"By the adoption of any of the duplex systems, this method can be converted into the quadruples system. Mr. Gerritt Smith was the inventor of this ingenious ..."

7. The Marine Steam Engine, Its Construction, Action and Management: A Manual by Karl Busley (1902)
"This latter point is of importance because when boilers have to be renewed, old compounds can be so simply converted into quadruples. ..."

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