Quintuple
['kwɪntjʊp(ə)l;kwɪn'tjuːp(ə)l] or ['kwɪntjʊpl]
Definition
(verb.) increase fivefold; 'The population of China quintupled'.
(adj.) having five units or components .
Typist: Sean--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Multiplied by five; increased to five times the amount; fivefold.
(v. t.) To make fivefold, or five times as much or many.
Editor: Vicky
Definition
adj. fivefold: (mus.) having five crotchets in a bar.—v.t. to make or to increase fivefold.—ns. Quin′tūplet a set of five things: (pl.) five young at a birth: (mus.) same as Quintole; Quintū′plicāte consisting of five: one of five exactly corresponding things.—v.t. to make or to increase a set of fivefold.—n. Quintuplicā′tion.
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Examples
- The quintuple grade is designed more particularly for hotels, restaurants, clubs and other institutions where the wear is especially severe. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Men learnt so to fertilize the soil as to produce quadruple and quintuple the crops got from the same area in the seventeenth century. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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