quadrate vs quadruple

quadrate

noun
  • The quadrate bone. 

  • A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square. 

  • An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90°, or the quarter of a circle; quartile. 

adj
  • Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square. 

  • Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square. 

quadruple

noun
  • Something that is four times the usual number, amount, size, etc. 

  • A figure-skating jump with four revolutions in the air. 

adj
  • Being four times as long, as big or as many of something. 

verb
  • To multiply by four. 

  • To increase by a factor of four. 

  • To provide four parallel running lines on a given stretch of railway. 

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