quadruple vs quadruplex

quadruple

verb
  • To multiply by four. 

  • To increase by a factor of four. 

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

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

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

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

quadruplex

verb
  • To make quadruplex. 

adj
  • Of or relating to an early videotape format with four magnetic record/reproduce heads mounted on a headwheel spinning transversely across the tape. 

  • Having four components. 

  • Of or relating to a system in telegraphy by which four messages (two in each direction) can be sent on one wire simultaneously. 

noun
  • A quadruplex system. 

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