decuple
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Therefore the whole uea, is the quintuple of the same ea: And the whole periphery is decuple unto it.
From The Way To Geometry by William Bedwell
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.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
With decuple vigour the stench now rose close to hand.
From Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 by James S. (James Seguin) De Benneville
All that occur above decuple or tenfold, are written with a hyphen, and are usually of round numbers only; as, thirty-fold, sixty-fold, hundred-fold.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
Now called simply a cube. decuple, 22/12; the product of a number by ten.
From The Earliest Arithmetics in English by Robert Steele
The force of his will seemed brusquely to be quadrupled and decupled.
From A Man's Woman by Frank Norris
At the end of the tragedy the applause was decupled.
From Mr. Prohack by Arnold Bennett
Only the amount of response Waymarsh had then taken for granted was doubled, decupled now.
From The Ambassadors by Henry James
Our capital would infallibly have been quadrupled,—what do I say? decupled, centupled, in a short space of time.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 by Various
