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Definition of Quadruplet

1. Noun. The cardinal number that is the sum of three and one.

2. Noun. One of four children born at the same time from the same pregnancy.

3. Noun. A set of four similar things considered as a unit.

Definition of Quadruplet

1. n. A collection or combination of four of a kind.

Definition of Quadruplet

1. Noun. One of a group of four babies born from the same mother during the same birth. ¹

2. Noun. Sequence of four elements. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Quadruplet

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Quadruplet

1. One of four children born at one birth. Synonym: quadrigeminus. Origin: L. Quadruplus, four fold (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Quadruplet

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 (current term) quadruplets quadruplex quadruplexes quadruplexing

quadruplexings quadruplicate quadruplicated quadruplicates quadruplicating quadruplication quadruplications quadruplicities quadruplicity quadrupling

Literary usage of Quadruplet

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

1. Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 by Newbury (Mass.) (1911)
"Enoch, s. quadruplet, Thomas and Harriet, Oct. 12, 1819. Enoch, drowned on the Bar, Dec. 4. 1833, a. 19 y. Harriet, d. quadruplet, Thomas and Harriet, ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1858)
"quadruplet Births.—These are so rare—as shown by the fact that ia 170901 labours in the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, there was but one instance of it—that the ..."

3. Amor Vitaque: A Little Book of Speculation in Lyric, Ballad and Omargram by John Baker Opdycke (1912)
"... was born in a triplet or quadruplet group and meets its natal affinities tandem or all at once? Pray of course, but don't hope for returns. ..."

4. The Cambridge and Dublin Mathematical Journal by William Whewell, Duncan Farquharson Gregory, Robert Leslie Ellis, William Thomson Kelvin, Norman Macleod Ferrers (1853)
"If the quadruplet has both italic and roman symbols, it must either have, or not, ... Let such a quadruplet be, m = 4, abbd . abbd. adad . adad, ..."

5. Elements of the Theory of the Newtonian Potential Function by Benjamin Osgood Peirce (1902)
"A "plane quadruplet" is formed of two equal and opposite plane doublets in the same manner that a doublet is formed out of a source and an equal sink. ..."

6. Elements of the Theory of the Newtonian Potential Function by Benjamin Osgood Peirce (1902)
"A "plane quadruplet" is formed of two equal and opposite plane doublets in the same manner that a doublet is formed out of a source and an equal sink. ..."

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