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View synonyms for decuple
decuple
[ dek-yoo-puhl ]
adjective
- ten times as great; tenfold.
noun
- a tenfold quantity or multiple.
verb (used with object)
, dec·u·pled, dec·u·pling.
- to make ten times as great.
decuple
/ ˈdɛkjʊpəl /
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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Word History and Origins
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Word 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 Golf Digest
Decuple, dek′ū-pl, adj. tenfold.—n. a number ten times repeated.—v.t. to make tenfold.
From Project Gutenberg
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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