Quadruple time

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

quadruple time
    n 1: a time signature indicating four beats to the bar [syn:
         {common time}, {four-four time}, {quadruple time}, {common
         measure}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Quadruple \Quad"ru*ple\, a. [L. quadruplus, from quattuor four:
   cf. F. quadruple. See {Quadrate}, and cf. {Double}.]
   Fourfold; as, to make quadruple restitution; a quadruple
   alliance.
   [1913 Webster]

   {Quadruple time} (Mus.), that in which each measure is
      divided into four equal parts.
      [1913 Webster]