quadruplets in English

noun
1
each of four children born at one birth.
Commotion over multiple births - quadruplets , quintuplets, sextuplets - isn't new.
2
a group of four notes to be performed in the time of three.
Piano I intensifies the accompaniment of the bell effects by passing from quadruplet sixteenth to triplet sixteenth.
noun

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1. The Challenge of Raising Quadruplets

2. In a way, the quadruplets were “congregation babies.”

3. This question arises correspondingly for other multiple births (triplets, quadruplets and so forth).

4. The quadruplets were born by Cesarean section on February 14, 1982, at 32 weeks.

5. So read a local newspaper headline announcing the addition of quadruplets to our family of four girls.

6. In 1958, the CSIRO purchased 12 ewes (triplets or quadruplets) and a ewe who had given birth to triplets.

7. People soon learned that a set of quadruplets is a force to be reckoned with!

8. Method and communications system based on synchronously orthogonal quadruplets of two-shift complementary code pairs

9. After the birth of the quadruplets, our four older girls and the congregation rallied to our help