verb
- multiplies by one hundred; increases a hundredfold
noun
- plural of centuple; amounts that are one hundred times as great
Examples
- The investment centuples in value over the decades.
- When the virus spreads unchecked, it centuples the infection rate.
- The company’s profits centuple after the breakthrough discovery.
- These centuples represent massive growth in the technology sector.
- The population centuples in the span of two centuries.