quadreble

adjective. four times as much or as many; fourfold.

4/4 time is classified as simple quadruple due to its four beats which can be divided into two notes. 4/2 and 4/8 are also simple quadruple. Notice that a time signature in simple meter will always have a 2, 3, or 4 for the top number.

You use quadruple to indicate that something has four parts or happens four times.

The price has almost quadrupled in that period of five years. Legal aid has about quadrupled in 10 years. Grain prices in the past two years have quadrupled. Demand for our charged information services has quadrupled since 1989.

to become four times as big, or to multiply a number or amount by four: The number of students at the college has quadrupled in the last ten years. We expect to quadruple our profits this year. We have had quadruple the number of applicants we expected.

Also if u follow up with Single, Double, Triple then there is "Quadruple", meaning Four Times. Eg.

In 12/16, 12/8, and 12/4 meters, there are four beats per measure, and each beat can be divided into threes. We call these COMPOUND QUADRUPLE meters - COMPOUND because the beats divide into threes, and QUADRUPLE because there are four beats per measure.

The '3' stands for 3 beats per measure and the '4' tells us that each beat is a quarter note. This means that the notes in each measure will add to three quarter notes. See if you can spot the three quarter note beats in this line of music.

The root -quad- comes from Latin, where it has the meaning "four, fourth." This meaning is found in such words as: quad, quadrangle, quadrant, quadruped, quadruplet.

Kids Definition quadri- combining form. variants or quadr- or quadru- : four.

Etymology. The term originated as an abstraction of the sequence: single, couple/double, triple, quadruple, quintuple, sextuple, septuple, octuple, ..., n‑tuple, ..., where the prefixes are taken from the Latin names of the numerals.

quintuple fivefold; consisting of five parts. five times as great or as much.