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Pattern of five shapes arranged like this puzzle's central black squares
Answer for the clue "Pattern of five shapes arranged like this puzzle's central black squares ", 8 letters:
quincunx
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A quincunx is a geometric pattern consisting of five points, four in a square with one more in the middle of the square. Quincunx may also refer to: Quincunx matrix , a 2×2 Hadamard matrix that generates points in a diagonal lattice pattern Bean machine ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, originally astrological, of planetary alignments, from Latin, literally "five twelfths" (especially "five unciae," that is, "five-twelfths of an as," the basic unit of Roman currency), from quinque "five" (see quinque- ) + uncia "ounce; a twelfth ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quincunx \Quin"cunx\, n. [L., fr. quinque five + uncia an ounce. The quincunx was marked by five small spots or balls. See Five , and Ounce the weight.] An arrangement of things by fives in a square or a rectangle, one being placed at each corner and one ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An arrangement of five units in a pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice, playing cards, or dominoes. 2 (context astrology English) An angle of five-twelfths of a circle, or 150°, between two objects. 3 A bronze coin minted during the Rome, ...
Usage examples of quincunx.
But even if the establishment truly is a Quincunx front, that organization always charges whatever the traffic will bear.
If Munngralla had good soundproofing in his back rooms and upstairs apartments - which as the local agent of the Quincunx he more than likely did - those bare hints of noise implied that all hell was breaking loose somewhere.
He knew what sort of sentence the Brotherhood would pass on someone who used their name and their password to bait a trap, but it was likely to be a long time indeed before the Quincunx could get a working agent onto Darvell to take care of the problem.
Brotherhood would pass on someone who used their name and their password to bait a trap, but it was likely to be a long time indeed before the Quincunx could get a working agent onto Darvell to take care of the problem.
Here, however, the quincunx was multiplied five times for the quincunx device itself was the element that made up the larger arrangement.
In short, it was a kind of quincunx raised to the power of two, a quincunx of quincunxes, apparently carved from a single and enormous slab of white marble.
Huffams and the Mompessons, but I am not sure that I have ever seen such an arrangement as this quincunx of quincunxes, as you aptly called it.
But you know, John, the quincunx of quincunxes represents not the triumph of the Mompessons over the other branches, but the union of the two founding families.
Well, since she could not give me the solution to the quincunx, I now had no chance of doing what she had hoped.
Ahead of me now, however, I saw in the exact centre of the quincunx planted by Jeoffrey Huffam the decaying stump of a fifth.
Tree Frog beer since the affair with the Quincunx, when somebody had tried to poison him by slipping mescalomide into a bottle of Export Dark.
The matter is that your moon in the First is quincunx your moon in the Seventh, you simply have no idea how to be a wife.
The Quincunx boasted that it could supply a customer with anything-from the merely hard-to-get, like tholovine, to the strictly illegal-as long as the customer was willing to meet their price.
Now, facing the Mias, stood the harrow formation of the quincunx, from which poured such a devastating volley that the attackers shrank back upon themselves.
So if I have understood you, the choice of which part of the design should be which tincture depends on how the three tinctures of the Huffam and Mompesson quincunxes have been incorporated to form this larger design?