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Quintupling

Quintuple \Quin"tu*ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Quintupled; p. pr. & vb. n. Quintupling.] [Cf. F. quintupler.] To make fivefold, or five times as much or many.

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quintupling

vb. (present participle of quintuple English)

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quintupling

n. increasing by a factor of five

Usage examples of "quintupling".

Iranian defense spending grew at a torrid pace, roughly quintupling between 1969 and 1978.

Pierce's perceptions heightened and intensified, as if he had Just undergone some impossible quintupling of sensory-input synthesis.

Any hefty acceleration with those gossamer elements in place would require quintupling the craft’s mass to keep the arrays from buckling during maneuvers.