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Narrator: Today's word is "Quadruple" — verb, pronounced /kwɒˈdruːpl/, with the stress on "dru".
Narrator: To quadruple is to become, or make something, four times as large.
Narrator: In plain English, it means multiply by four.
Narrator: It comes from the Latin quadruplus, fourfold.
Narrator: A common collocation is "quadruple in size", which describes growing fourfold.
Narrator: It differs from "double", because doubling multiplies by two, while quadrupling multiplies by four.
Narrator: In a second sense, as an adjective, quadruple means consisting of four parts, as in a quadruple bypass.
Narrator: Finance, maths, medicine and sport all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: quadruple means four times over.
Speaker A: How's the new online shop doing?
Speaker B: Sales have QUADRUPLED! It comes from the Latin for fourfold.
Speaker A: Four times last year?
Speaker B: Exactly, and still growing.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "Prices quadrupled in a decade", an economic note. "He had a quadruple bypass", a medical fact. "The team won a quadruple of trophies", a sports boast.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Stress the second syllable, "kwod-ROO-pl", and spell it with "u", not "quadraple".
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Double is its cousin, triple its twin, and multiply an alternative — yet quadruple keeps its mighty charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "quadruple" in AI prompts — useful for analytics and recipe scaling.
Speaker A: How for analytics?
Speaker B: Explain growth.
Prompt: Write a headline summary explaining that monthly users quadrupled after the redesign.
Speaker A: And recipes?
Speaker B: Scale quantities.
Prompt: Quadruple this recipe and convert the measurements to grams.
Speaker A: Could it help capacity planning?
Speaker B: Yes, for servers.
Prompt: Estimate the server resources needed if traffic quadruples during a sale.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: A finance app.
Prompt: Calculate how many years it takes an investment to quadruple at six percent a year.
Quadruple — meaning in Arabic & definition More Q courses GL Dictionary