quadrupling
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- noun
- /kwɒˈdruːplɪŋ/
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- Since implementing the new learning programs, there has been a quadrupling in the number of students achieving high scores.
- the quadrupling of prices
- the quadrupling of oil
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The phenomenal growth of state revenues attributed to the nationalization of the IPC and the quadrupling of oil prices in 1974 is, in essence, the background of Iraq's semiperipheral ascent.
Academic text (1995) -
Accompanying this dizzying change in America's economic situation was the near quadrupling of its total national debt from just under $1 trillion to over $4 trillion between 1980 and 1992.
Academic text (1996) -
A quadrupling of numbers would have to include some movement of blue whales from elsewhere in the Pacific into California waters, he notes.
Academic text (1993) -
This constitutes a quadrupling of federal debt under the two Republican presidents from 1981 to 1992.
Blog text (8) -
OPEC's quadrupling of oil prices in 1973 represented a watershed in Japanese foreign policy.
Academic text (1991) -
While British manufacturers wail at a quadrupling of the spot price of gas since the beginning of November, their continental counterparts are benefiting from prices at between one-third and half of the going rate in Britain.
Blog text (23) -
In 1975, in the aftermath of the quadrupling of world market prices brought about by the first OPEC oil crisis, the Soviet Union began to adjust prices of oil exports to its CMEA allies annually, based on the moving average of world market prices during the previous five years.
Academic text (1992) -
Much has been written about the oil price quadrupling by OPEC in the eight weeks between 16 October and 23 December 1973, from $3.01 to $5.12 and then to $11.65 for a barrel of oil.
Academic text (1996) -
The quadrupling of newspapers (from 90 to 370) in circulation during the period 1790 to 1810 gives some idea of just how competitive the information market had become.
Academic text (1997) -
The company reported a quadrupling of its revenue compared to last year's figures.
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Etymology
Quadrupling comes from quadruple, which has a root that means 'four', as in quartet, a group of four. So to quadruple something is to make it 'four times' as large, and quadrupling is the action of doing that.