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Definition of Quintupling
1. Noun. Increasing by a factor of five.
Definition of Quintupling
1. Verb. (present participle of quintuple) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Quintupling
1. quintuple [v] - See also: quintuple
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quintupling
Literary usage of Quintupling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On the Foundation and Technic of Arithmetic by George Bruce Halsted (1912)
"Practice in simple multiplication, envisaged first as condensed addition, may go
up through doubling, tripling, quadrupling, quintupling. ..."
2. The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences by William Kingdon Clifford (1891)
"The step —15 may be got in two ways; by tripling and reversing the forward step
+ 5, or by quintupling the backward step —3. In symbols, (-3) ( + 5) = (+5) ..."
3. The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences by William Kingdon Clifford (1885)
"The step —15 may be got in two ways; by tripling and reversing the forward step
+ 5, or by quintupling the backward step — 3. ..."
4. The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences by William Kingdon Clifford (1885)
"The step —15 may be got in two ways; by tripling and reversing the forward step
+ 5, or by quintupling the backward step —3. In symbols, (-3) ( + 5) = ( + ..."
5. The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences by William Kingdon Clifford, Richard Charles Rowe, Karl Pearson (1885)
"The step —15 may be got in two ways; by tripling and reversing the forward step
+ 5, or by quintupling the backward step —3. In symbols, (-3) ( + 5) = ( + ..."
6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"... and now a bill has been introduced by the Department of Interior providing
for quintupling the federal subsidy and for placing the Concilium under the ..."
7. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow (2003)
"Identical sims would stack like cordwood in the space currently occupied by the
bulky ride- apparatus and dioramas, quintupling capacity and halving ..."
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