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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
quadruplicate is a noun, verb and adjective meaning "any four copies; any of four things that correspond to one another exactly". It carries 3 recorded senses.
any four copies; any of four things that correspond to one another exactly
“it was signed in quadruplicate”
having four units or components
“quadruple rhythm has four beats per measure”
“quadruplex wire”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for quadruplicate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.