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quintuple

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Word definitions for quintuple in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, from quintuple (adj.) or from French quintupler (v.). Related: Quintupled ; quintupling .

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quintuple \Quin"tu*ple\, a. [L. quintus fifth: cf. F. quintuple, L. quintuplex. Cf. Quadruple .] Multiplied by five; increased to five times the amount; fivefold. Quintuple time (Mus.), a time having five beats in a measure. It is seldom used.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 having five parts or members 2 five times as much n. a fivefold amount v to multiply something (or be multiplied) by five

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. increase fivefold; "The population of China quintupled"

Usage examples of quintuple.

He did quadruple and quintuple integration, even quadruple integration between varying exponential limitsin his head.

He did quadruple and quintuple integration, even quadruple integration between varying exponential limits-in his head.

Stripped of all the technical nomenclature, it basically stated that the Accord microprocessing industry had developed the capability of producing triple minibits which could do the work of Imperial quintuple minibits produced by the Noram microprocessors.

I had a bit of money put by and here was the chance to go into hops with the certainty that hops would quadruple and quintuple in price inside the year.

Obers-rom gave them a hammer, nailsworth quintuple their weight in any nonmetal coin.

Besides that, by exposing ourselves to revitalizers at regular intervals throughout our lifetime and refreshing our body cells, we quintuple our life expectancy.

Why Geomancers do imitate the Quintuple Figure, in their Mother Characters of Acquisition and Amission, &c.

But Jupiter's escape velocity is quintuple that of Earth's, so we were in no danger of flying free.

I used to wonder how the escape velocity could be quintuple when the gee was only two and a half times Earth's, until I realized that the total size of Jupiter's gravity well is much larger than Earth's.

I used to wonder how the escape velocity could be quintuple when the gee was only two and a half times Earth’.

Inasmuch as the girls now found time to give Jubal perfect service too, Jubal counted his blessings and let it lie - except for a wry and very private thought that, if he had demanded a showdown, Mike could easily quintuple their salaries simply by dropping a post card to Douglas-but that the girls would just as readily have supported Mike.

Inasmuch as the girls now found time to give Jubal perfect service too, Jubal counted his blessings and let it lie - except for a wry and very private thought that, if he had demanded a showdown, Mike could easily quintuple their salaries simply by dropping a post card to Douglas - but that the girls would just as readily have supported Mike.

Ngana had looked the world over, ordered in some twenty thousand “agrarian assistants,” and quintupled the amount of available food in three years’ time, never once extracting any payment or promise of payment from the natives, and never once allowing them to discover the methods the Republic used to multiply the food supply.

Under his direction the campus literary magazine not only doubled its circulation and quintupled its readership, but brought several of its contributors reprint fees, and one a book contract.

With the couple of thousand pennies you morons were going to give him, he could have-well, quintupled his living space at the very least.