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Definition of Quintuple

1. Noun. A set of five similar things considered as a unit.

2. Verb. Increase fivefold. "The population of China quintupled"

3. Adjective. Having five units or components.

Definition of Quintuple

1. a. Multiplied by five; increased to five times the amount; fivefold.

2. v. t. To make fivefold, or five times as much or many.

Definition of Quintuple

1. Adjective. having five parts or members ¹

2. Adjective. five times as much ¹

3. Noun. a fivefold amount ¹

4. Verb. to multiply something (or be multiplied) by five ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Quintuple

1. [v -PLED, -PLING, -PLES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Quintuple

quintillionfold quintillions quintillionth quintillionths quintin quintine quintinite quintins quintipara quintiparas

quintole quintoles quintom quintoms quints quintuple (current term) quintuple-click quintuple-clicked quintuple-clicking quintuple-clicks

quintuple-ribbed quintuple double quintuple doubles quintupled quintuples quintuplet quintuplets quintuplicate quintuplicated quintuplicates

Literary usage of Quintuple

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Universal Algebra: With Applications by Alfred North Whitehead (1898)
"Hence the director lines of a quintuple group form a linear complex defined by the system 8,' [cf. ..."

2. The Neutrality of Belgium: A Study of the Belgian Case Under Its Aspects in by Alexander Fuehr (1915)
"It is a matter of history that, at that time, the quintuple Treaty had but recently been exhumed, in connection with the Luxembourg Question. ..."

3. The Neutrality of Belgium: A Study of the Belgian Case Under Its Aspects in by Alexander Fuehr (1915)
"It is a matter of history that, at that time, the quintuple Treaty had but recently been exhumed, in connection with the Luxembourg Question. ..."

4. Facts and Suggestions, Biographical, Historical, Financial and Political by Duff Green (1866)
"HAVING referred to the quintuple treaty as one of the measures intended to ... The following is the text of the quintuple treaty for the suppression of the ..."

5. Facts and Suggestions, Biographical, Historical, Financial and Political by Duff Green (1866)
"The following is the text of the quintuple treaty for the suppression of the African slave trade, signed in London, Dec. 20, 1841 : AKT. ..."

6. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1835)
"QUADRUPLE and quintuple ALLIANCE*. The natural, but undue influence, ... History will yet speak of quadruple and quintuple alliances in the great struggle ..."

7. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1832)
"QUADRUPLE and quintuple ALLIANCE. The natural, but undue influence, ... History will yet speak of quadruple and quintuple alliances in the great struggle ..."

8. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake (1851)
"QUADRUPLE and quintuple ALLIANCE. The natural, but undue influence, ... History will yet speak of quadruple and quintuple alliances in the great struggle ..."

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