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▪ I. quintuple, a. and n.|ˈkwɪntjuːp(ə)l|
[a. F. quintuple (1484), f. L. quint-us fifth, after quadruple.]
A. adj.
a. Fivefold; multiplied by five; consisting of five things or parts.
quintuple power, quintuple proportion, quintuple ratio, the ratio of five to one. quintuple time in Mus. (see quot. 1806).
1570Billingsley Euclid xiii. ii. 391 If a right line be in power quintuple to a segment of the same line. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. xvi. §6 A proportion quintuple at most of the writing infolding to the writing infolded. 1633Heywood Eng. Trav. i. i. Wks. 1874 IV. 7 Bring backe His ship and charge, with profits quintuple. 1672Petty Pol. Anat. (1691) 24 The number and natural force of the Irish [was] quintuple to that of the English. 1711Wylde Eng. Master Defence 26 A Falsify is made single,..quadruple, quintuple, or as oft as your Fancy directs. 1806J. W. Callcott Mus. Gram. iii. 40 A species of Time called Quintuple, which contains five Crotchets in a Bar. 1875Blake Zool. 335 In the Sea-urchins..the body has a quintuple arrangement.
b. Comb., as quintuple-nerved, quintuple-ribbed.
1832Lindley Introd. Bot. (1839) 129 A leaf..is called triple, quintuple, &c. nerved, if the nerves all proceed from the midrib towards the margin. 1861Bentley Man. Bot. 153 If two such ribs arise on each side of the midrib, it is termed quintuple-ribbed or quintuplicostate.
B. n. A fivefold amount; a group of five.
1684J. Wallis Angular Sections iv. 27 The Quintuple of the Subtense of an Arch. Ibid. The Quintuple of the Cube of the same Subtense. 1784Herschel in Phil. Trans. LXXV. 91 Five more [stars] in view, differently dispersed about the quintuple. 1975N. Chomsky Logical Struct. Linguistic Theory ix. 327 A set of ordered quintuples {ob}(Z, K, Z1, Pr(1), Pr(2)){cb}.
▪ II. quintuple, v.|ˈkwɪntjuːp(ə)l|
[f. prec. Cf. F. quintupler.]
1. trans. To multiply by five; to make five times as much or as great.
1639Shirley Ball ii. i, In three months your estate Will be five times as much, or quintupled. 1674S. Jeake Arith. (1696) 200 Quintuple it, and the Product shall be the Divisor. 1796Burney Mem. Metastasio III. 101, I beg of you to quintuple,..the embraces, which I consign to you for her use. a1852Macgillivray Nat. Hist. Dee Side (1855) 21 Who has by his various improvements quintupled his rental. 1889Spectator 13 Apr., The endless difficulty of communication..quintuples all other difficulties.
b. To produce five times as much as.
1824Landor Imag. Conv., Pallavinchi & Landor Wks. 1853 I. 42/2 This, and the celebrated vine at Hampton Court..have quintupled the most prolific.
2. intr. To increase fivefold; to become five times as many or as great.
1816Southey in Q. Rev. XV. 538 The population of London must at least have quintupled since that time. 1872Buckle Misc. Wks. I. 468 It is stated that within sixty years rents had quintupled. |