English-Dutch translations for quadruple

• quadrupel
• quadrupleren
• verviervoudigen
  Als rapporteur heb ik voorgesteld het bedrag dat op de Gemeenschapsbegroting zal worden gereserveerd te verviervoudigen. As rapporteur, I have proposed that we quadruple the amount that is intended to be appropriated in the Community budget.
  Zo wordt bijvoorbeeld geschat dat de handel tussen de EU-landen en de zogeheten overgangseconomieën in het Oostzeegebied de komende jaren zal verviervoudigen. For example, trade between the EU countries and the 'transitional economies' is expected to quadruple in the next few years in the Baltic region.
• viervoud

Definition of quadruple

• Being four times as long, as big or as many of something
• To multiply by four
• To increase by a factor of four
• To provide four parallel running lines on a given stretch of railway

Examples

• Hes quite an athlete and can do quadruple jumps with ease
• Quadrupling four gives sixteen
• Our profits quadrupled when we made the improvements

Related words

• quadrupled
• quadruplet
• quadruplex
• quadruple root
• quadruple star
• quadruple play
• quadruple time
• quadruple bond