centuple

See also: centuplé

English

English numbers (edit)
100
10
    Cardinal: hundred
    Ordinal: hundredth
    Multiplier: hundredfold
    Latinate multiplier: centuple
    Group collective: hundred
    Multipart collective: centuplet
    Metric collective prefix: hecto-
    Metric fractional prefix: centi-
    Elemental: centuplet
    Number of years: century, centennium

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -uːpəl

Adjective

centuple (not comparable)

  1. Hundredfold. Multiplied by one hundred.

Translations

Verb

centuple (third-person singular simple present centuples, present participle centupling, simple past and past participle centupled)

  1. (intransitive) To increase a hundredfold.
  2. (transitive) To increase or multiply something by a hundred.
    • 2015, Errico Malatesta, Carl Levy, Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta:
      "Mechanisation, science, and technology have centupled the productive potential of human labour."

Derived terms

Translations

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɑ̃.typl/
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Noun

centuple m (plural centuples)

  1. hundredfold quantity
    • 1857, Charles Baudelaire, “Une charogne”, in Les Fleurs du mal [The Flowers of Evil], Paris: Poulet-Malassis et De Broise:
      Et de rendre au centuple à la grande Nature / Tout ce qu’ensemble elle avait joint.
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Verb

centuple

  1. inflection of centupler:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

Italian

Adjective

centuple

  1. feminine plural of centuplo

Latin

Adjective

centūple

  1. vocative masculine singular of centūplus
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