English-Italian translations for quadruple

• quadruplicare
  In veste di relatore ho proposto di quadruplicare l'importo che si intende stanziare nel bilancio comunitario. As rapporteur, I have proposed that we quadruple the amount that is intended to be appropriated in the Community budget.
  L’Austria ha poi notato che, nei prossimi due anni, in parte a causa dei paesi aderenti, il traffico in transito attraverso l’Austria potrebbe benissimo raddoppiare, se non quadruplicare. Austria has consequently noted that, in the next couple of years, partly caused by the accession countries, transport through Austria could well double, if not quadruple.
• quadruplice
  Vogliamo come giudice europeo la persona che ha liberato un quadruplice omicida? Do we want a European judge who set free a quadruple child murderer?
  Ora, purtroppo, la crisi è diventata quadruplice, se aggiungiamo anche la crisi del bilancio statale. But now, sadly, we have a quadruple crisis if we add the state budget crisis.
• quadruplo

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

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• quadruplet
• quadruplex
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