Definitions

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  • noun A set of eight like or identical things.

Etymologies

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Latin; probably patterned after duplicate from Latin duplicare ("to double").

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Examples

  • She had written her phone number down in triplicate, quadruplicate, octuplicate, on little pieces of paper that she had pinned to his shirt in a safety jacket pattern to protect him on his walk home.

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