DECUPLE Definition & Meaning

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decuple

[ dek-yoo-puhl ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

ten times as great; tenfold.

noun

a tenfold quantity or multiple.

verb (used with object)

decupled, decupling.

to make ten times as great.

decuple

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verb

tr to increase by ten times

noun

an amount ten times as large as a given reference

adjective

increasing tenfold

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of decuple¹

1375–1425; late Middle English < Middle French < Latin decuplus tenfold, equivalent to dec ( em ) ten + -uplus, as in quadruplus quadruple

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of decuple¹

C15: from Old French, from Late Latin decuplus tenfold, from Latin decem ten

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Example Sentences

That would be a decuple bogey, 10 over par.

From

Decuple, dek′ū-pl, adj. tenfold.—n. a number ten times repeated.—v.t. to make tenfold.

From

Nor does it appear necessary to do more than mention the Pythagorean table of principles, the number of which is supposed to have given rise to the decuple arrangement adopted by Aristotle.

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Therefore the whole uea, is the quintuple of the same ea: And the whole periphery is decuple unto it.

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Now called simply a cube. decuple, 22/12; the product of a number by ten.

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