Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One of four offspring born in a single birth.
- noun A group or combination of four associated by common properties or behavior.
- noun Music A group of four notes having the time value of three notes of the same kind.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any combination of four objects or parts grouped, united, or acting together: as, a quadruplet of springs, consisting of four elliptic springs coupled together and acting as one spring. Also called
quartet . - noun One of four born at a single birth.
- noun A bicycle for four riders.
- noun In music, same as
quartole .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A collection or combination of four of a kind.
- noun Four children born in the same labor.
- noun A cycle for carrying four riders, so arranged that all the riders can assist in the propulsion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One of a group of four babies born from the same mother during the same birth.
- noun Sequence of four elements.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one of four children born at the same time from the same pregnancy
- noun a set of four similar things considered as a unit
- noun the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This method is partly why I have seen more quadruplet fawns than many think possible.
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In Michigan we are finding that gun laws are getting less and less restrictive this year they are doing away with the "Safty Inspections" registration of handguns all together, when you purchase a handgun you fill out a quadruplet form and one copy goes to the store, one to the local P.D. or Sheriff's office, one to the State Police, and one to the purchaser.
Brady Campaign Sues Over Park Gun Rule Dave Hurteau 2009
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He suffered a life threatening disease in 2008, but fought his way back to health for his wife, quadruplet daughters and new baby girl.
Karen Dalton-Beninato: For Valentine's Romance, New Orleans Bistro Delivers Karen Dalton-Beninato 2011
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He suffered a life threatening disease in 2008, but fought his way back to health for his wife, quadruplet daughters and new baby girl.
Karen Dalton-Beninato: For Valentine's Romance, New Orleans Bistro Delivers Karen Dalton-Beninato 2011
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This method is partly why I have seen more quadruplet fawns than many think possible.
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Hell if you were birthing quadruplet boys or a goat or pretty much anything, I'd trade places with you in a second.
Oh, Boy. kittenpie 2008
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His body is constantly threatening to spill out of his dishevelled clothes: he really needs a quadruplet, not a doublet.
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At a zoo in Taiyuan, China, the birth of quadruplet white tiger cubs on June 20 was an exciting event.
Helpful dog feeds four white tiger cubs at a zoo in China 2010
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People always say that this quadruplet rhythm is for light verse.
THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009
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Wrote a number of poems about alcohol, as befits a poet of the Prohibition, using that same quadruplet rhythm.
THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009
ruzuzu commented on the word quadruplet
"A cycle for carrying four riders, so arranged that all the riders can assist in the propulsion."
--GNU Webster's 1913
August 1, 2012