quadrupling vs multiplication

quadrupling and multiplication both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
quadrupling	Yes	No	No	No
multiplication	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, multiplication is a hypernym of quadrupling; that is, multiplication is a word with a broader meaning than quadrupling:

quadrupling (noun)	multiplication (noun)
increase by a factor of four	an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division; the product of two numbers is computed
	the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
	a multiplicative increase