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English
Pronunciation
Adjective
centuple (not comparable)
- Hundredfold. Multiplied by one hundred.
Translations
Verb
centuple (third-person singular simple present centuples, present participle centupling, simple past and past participle centupled)
- (intransitive) To increase a hundredfold.
- (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
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French
Pronunciation
Noun
centuple m (plural centuples)
- hundredfold quantity
Verb
centuple
- inflection of centupler:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
Italian
Adjective
centuple
- feminine plural of centuplo
Latin
Adjective
centūple
- vocative masculine singular of centūplus