(v. t.) To make fourfold; to double twice; to quadruple.
(a.) Fourfold; doubled twice; four times repeated; as, a quadruplicate ratio, or a quadruplicate proportion.
(a.) Raised to the fourth power.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three effector: target ratios (6.2:1, 25:1, and 50:1) were studied in quadruplicate using 3, 4 and 5-h incubations.
(2) The largest increases in brain weights in both sexes occurred during the first 3 years of life, when the value quadruples over that at birth, while during the subsequent 15 years the brain weight barely quintuples over that at birth.
(3) They then decreased very slowly, according to a half-life of 122 h. Although it decreases glomerular filtration, ligation of ureters 20 h before the injection quadrupled the concentration in the cortex.
(4) Official estimates suggest the number of small packages shipped into Europe more than quadrupled from 26m in 2000 to 115m two years ago.
(5) The kinetics of intravenously administered FK506 was not changed from control status two weeks after bile duct ligation, but the bioavailability of orally administered FK506 was nearly quadrupled.
(6) There is a clear benefit of quadruple drug induction treatment for retransplants and sensitized transplant candidates.
(7) This patient achieved a complete remission with cyclic quadruple chemotherapy consisting of cyclophosphamide, vincristine, procarbazine, and prednisone (COPP).
(8) Null yuh1 ubp1 ubp2 ubp3 quadruple mutants are viable and retain the ability to deubiquitinate ubiquitin fusions, indicating the presence of at least one more ubiquitin-specific processing protease in S. cerevisiae.
(9) Guinea pig alveolar macrophages were infected in quadruplicate with log10 3.8 CFU of F889 cells grown at either 25 or 41 degrees C. Counts of F889 in the alveolar macrophages infected with 25 degrees C-grown bacteria were 40% greater after 1 day of incubation (P = 2 X 10(-4)) than were counts in the alveolar macrophage suspensions inoculated with 41 degrees C-grown bacteria.
(10) Shares acquired through privatisations rose steadily on the stock markets, while the buyers of council houses found that their assets tripled or quadrupled in value in the space of five years.
(11) An inductively coupled, quadruple-tuned surface coil with a 50-ohm match at all relevant frequencies was used for both excitation and receiving.
(12) Although both stores carried the same brands and varieties of produce, all 19 cases occurred among employees of one store, which had held a celery sale coincident with the outbreak, resulting in a quadrupling of the usual volume of celery sold.
(13) during the period of one year, that triple and quadruple resistance is the most prevalent one in staphylococci - not regarded, however, the penicillin resistance which is absolutely predominant.
(14) Sequence differences in the internally quadruplicated molecules, analysed in terms of their beta-sheets, hairpins and arches, give rise to structural differences in the motifs.
(15) Furthermore, a high percentage of multiple (quadruple or more) pancreatica magna and caudae pancreatis arteries has been observed and a functional role of this peculiar arrangement is suggested.
(16) BEATING THE CHEATING Owen Gibson’s five-point plan for reform 1 Hugely increase global funding Triple it, quadruple it.
(17) Surgery consisted in quadruple coronary bypass in 1 case, triple coronary bypass in 3 cases and double coronary bypass in 6 cases using 4 autologous saphenous vein grafts, 6 autologous internal mammary artery grafts and 13 bovine internal mammary artery grafts.
(18) The price of the specially formulated milk he requires has quadrupled since last year, so his parents have had to rent out their own home and move into a much smaller, rundown one just to feed their child.
(19) The High Pay Commission revealed earlier this week that while average pay has quadrupled since 1980s, top executives have seen their remuneration rise by 4,000%.
(20) Fourteen patients (56%) had double, triple or quadruple cancers.
Triplicate
Definition:
(v. t.) Made thrice as much; threefold; tripled.
(n.) A third thing corresponding to two others of the same kind.
Example Sentences:
(1) Proton induced X-ray emission (PIXE) analyses were performed on single hair fibers in triplicate from 103 individuals in order to determine sulfur, zinc, calcium, and chlorine content.
(2) One hundred isolates were tested in triplicate, and geometric mean MICs were plotted against arithmetic mean zone diameters and regression statistics calculated.
(3) All mixtures were prepared in triplicate and added with water.
(4) Nine gamma gene triplications from seven ethnic groups were analyzed for G gamma and hemoglobin F (Hb F) values of heterozygotes and for the presence of polymorphic XmnI restriction sites 5' to the gamma genes.
(5) A unique triplication of 108 bp, including the evolutionary conserved sequence CSB-3, was found.
(6) The method is sensitive to as little as 10 picograms of 1,25-(OH)2D, and triplicate assays can be done on 5 milliliters of plasma.
(7) Each experiment was made in triplicate, the vaporizer being dried out between each.
(8) Over a period of sixty hours, no relevant influence on sperm motility in comparison to control media was noted on triplicate testing.
(9) Both sides of bilateral ureteral triplications in our case belonged to type B of Smith's classification.
(10) All patients with triplicated pouches and all except one with duplicated pouches were able to defaecate spontaneously, without needing to intubate the reservoir.
(11) The presence of the gamma-globin gene triplication was frequently observed in M. fuscata.
(12) One baby was heterozygous for a chromosome with two linked G gamma globin genes (-G gamma-G gamma-delta-beta), which has also been observed in Black newborns [Powers et al, Nucleic Acids Res 12:7023, 1984], while the two other babies were heterozygous for a chromosome with triplicated gamma globin genes, presumably of the -G gamma-A gamma G gamma-A gamma-delta-beta arrangement.
(13) This method allows assays of opsonic activity to be performed in triplicate on large numbers of sera with a relatively small number of phagocytes and should aid the investigation of the role of opsonisation in infectious disease.
(14) Ureteral triplication is a rare anomaly of the urinary tract.
(15) The optimal disk concentration and incubation time were determined by utilizing triplicate sets of quadrant plates prepared with supplemented brucella (Difco) blood agar and swabbed with a 24-h broth (BBL; 135 C thioglycolate) suspension of the test organism.
(16) Three bags each were stored at 4, 20, and 37 degrees C; three 20-mL samples were removed from each bag after 0, 0.5, 1, 2, 5, 7, 10, 14, 21, 28, and 42 days and analyzed in triplicate by high-performance liquid chromatography.
(17) The structure resulting from this triplication consisted of three large loops and three long connecting segments.
(18) Run-to-run assay CV was 6% for primidone and phenobarbital and 13% for phenytoin, based on the means of triplicate determinations of a sample with a mid-range concentration.
(19) All measurements were made in triplicate and averaged.
(20) The different cytogenetic mechanism given in these cases shows us that with independence of it, it exists a triplication of the half distal short arm of chromosome 9 which gives specificity to these phenotypic features.