decuple
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That would be a decuple bogey, 10 over par.
From Golf Digest
Decuple, dek′ū-pl, adj. tenfold.—n. a number ten times repeated.—v.t. to make tenfold.
From Project Gutenberg
Nor does it appear necessary to do more than mention the Pythagorean table of principles, the number of which is supposed to have given rise to the decuple arrangement adopted by Aristotle.
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Therefore the whole uea, is the quintuple of the same ea: And the whole periphery is decuple unto it.
From Project Gutenberg
Now called simply a cube. decuple, 22/12; the product of a number by ten.
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