centuple

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• Rhymes: -uːpəl

centuple (not comparable)

1. Hundredfold. Multiplied by one hundred.

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^[1]:

     "Mechanisation, science, and technology have centupled the productive potential of human labour."

• centuplet

• centuplication

• IPA^(key): /sɑ̃.typl/

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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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centuple

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

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

centuple

1. feminine plural of centuplo

centuple

1. vocative masculine singular of centuplus