centuple

See also: centuplé

English

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	100
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Cardinal: hundred     Ordinal: hundredth     Multiplier: hundredfold     Latinate multiplier: centuple     Germanic collective: hundred     Germanolatinate 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

hundredfold

• Bulgarian: стократен (bg) (stokraten)
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• Russian: стокра́тный (ru) m (stokrátnyj), стокра́тная (ru) f (stokrátnaja), стокра́тное (ru) n (stokrátnoje)

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

• centuplet

Related terms

• centuplication

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɑ̃.typl/

• Audio:

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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

• “centuple”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Adjective

centuple

1. feminine plural of centuplo

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Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) centūple

1. vocative masculine singular of centūplus