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Definition of Quintuple
1. Adjective. Having five units or components.
2. Verb. Increase fivefold. "The population of China quintupled"
3. Noun. A set of five similar things considered as a unit.
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
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 ..."