decupleとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From French décuple, from Late Latin decuplus (“tenfold”), from Latin decem (“ten”), and plico (“fold”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈdekjuːpɫ/, /ˈdekjuːpəl/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛkjʊpɫ/, /ˈdɛkjʊpl./

形容詞

decuple (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Tenfold.

名詞

decuple (複数形 decuples)

1. (archaic) An amount multiplied by ten.
   • 1842, Jacob Reese Eckfeldt; William Ewing Du Bois, A manual of gold and silver coins of all nations, struck within ..., page 89:

     The gold coin of the law of 1818 is of four denominations; the decuple of 30 ducats, the half-decuple, ...

動詞

decuple (三人称単数 現在形 decuples, 現在分詞 decupling, 過去形および過去分詞形 decupled)

1. (archaic) To multiply by ten.
   • 1903, Henry James, The Ambassadors:

     They were in communication as they had been, that first morning, in Sarah's salon and in her presence and Mme. de Vionnet's; and the same recognition of a great goodwill was again, after all, possible. Only the amount of response Waymarsh had then taken for granted was doubled, decupled now.

   • 2004, Mark Collier; Stephen Quirke, Annette Imhausen, The UCL Lahun papyri: religious, literary, legal, mathematical and ..., volume 1209:

     The multiplications on this fragment show four of the basic techniques used by the Egyptian scribe in performing calculations: doubling, halving, decupling, and "taking two-thirds".