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quintuple
[ kwin-too-puhl, -tyoo-, -tuhp-uhl, kwin-too-puhl, -tyoo- ]
adjective
- fivefold; consisting of five parts.
- five times as great or as much.
- Music. having five beats to a measure.
noun
- a number, amount, etc., five times as great as another.
verb (used with or without object)
- to make or become five times as great.
quintuple
/ ˈkwɪntjʊpəl; kwɪnˈtjuːpəl /
verb
- to multiply by five
adjective
- five times as much or as many; fivefold
- consisting of five parts
noun
- a quantity or number five times as great as another
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Example Sentences
That is not the case when he talks about having quintuple-bypass surgery at 53 and recalling that his father died at 57.
The cruiser had the new compound quintuple engines, capable of driving her twenty-six knots an hour under forced draught.
The calculation might be sustained that it would quintuple in value in the course of fifty years.
A public conveyance could not be obtained unless one paid "double, treble, and quintuple fares and a gratuity."
Of the Quintuple biliteral there are thirty-two combinations.
Moreover, they could turn their talents to any line of business and double, treble, quintuple parts as easily as talk.
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