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View synonyms for decuple

decuple

[ dek-yoo-puhl ]

adjective

  1. ten times as great; tenfold.


noun

  1. a tenfold quantity or multiple.

verb (used with object)

, dec·u·pled, dec·u·pling.
  1. to make ten times as great.

decuple

/ ˈdɛkjʊpəl /

verb

  1. tr to increase by ten times
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. an amount ten times as large as a given reference
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. increasing tenfold
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word 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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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.

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

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.

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

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

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