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in quintuplicate

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quin⋅tu⋅pli⋅cate

[n., adj. kwin-too-pli-kit, -tyoo-; v. kwin-too-pli-keyt, -tyoo-] noun, adjective, verb, -cat⋅ed, -cat⋅ing.
–noun
1. a group, series, or set of five copies or identical items, esp. copies of typewritten matter.
–adjective
2. noting or consisting of five identical parts; fivefold.
3. pertaining to a fifth item or copy of something.
–verb (used with object)
4. to produce or copy in quintuplicate.
5. to make five times as great, as by multiplying.
6. in quintuplicate, in five identical copies.

Origin:
1650–60; quintu(ple) + -plicate, after duplicate, triplicate, etc.


quin⋅tu⋅pli⋅ca⋅tion, noun
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