quintupleadj.n.
/ˈkwɪntjᵿpl/, /ˈkwɪntʃᵿpl/, /kwɪnˈtjuːpl/, /kwɪnˈtʃuːpl/, U.S. /kwɪnˈt(j)up(ə)l/, /kwɪnˈtəp(ə)l/ A. adj.
1. Consisting of five things or parts; five times as many or as much; fivefold. Formerly with to.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > five > [adjective] > fivefold
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > five > [adjective] > five times as much
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?1563 R. Lever & W. Fulwood Most Noble Playe called Philosophers Game sig. Avi (table) Doble..triple..quadruple..quintuple..sextuple..proportion.
1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. xiii. f. 390v If a right line, be in power quintuple to a segment of the same line.
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Qq1 A proportion Quintuple at most, of the writing infoulding, to the writing infoulded. View more context for this quotation
1633 T. Heywood Eng. Trav. i. i, in Wks. (1874) IV. 7 Bring backe His ship and charge, with profits quintuple.
a1687 W. Petty Polit. Anat. Ireland (1691) 24 The number and natural force of the Irish [was] quintuple to that of the English.
1711 Z. Wylde Eng. Master of Defence 26 A Falsify is made single,..quadruple, quintuple, or as oft as your Fancy directs.
1762 Philos. Trans. 1761 (Royal Soc.) 52 i. 95 The whole, when least affected by the neighbouring clouds, seemed in extent to be quadruple, if not quintuple the space occupied by the disk of the sun.
1852 G. Grote Hist. Greece X. ii. lxxx. 437 The pentathlon, or quintuple contest, wherein the running match and the wrestling match came first in order.
1875 C. C. Blake Zoology 335 In the Sea-urchins..the body has a quintuple arrangement.
1948 C. Connolly Enemies of Promise (rev. ed.) iii. 17 Only a master could get away with ‘I pray you undo this button’, or Lear's quintuple ‘Never’.
1977 N.Z. Herald 8 Jan. i. 10/7 The Aucklander topped it all with a remarkable quintuple peel against Mrs R. A. Johnstone..in the open championship event.
1998 Economist 21 Mar. 53/3 Boris Yeltsin was ill again this week... Two years ago his sore throat had to be cured by a quintuple heart bypass.
2. Music. Of a rhythm or time: having five beats in a bar. Chiefly in quintuple time.
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1806 J. W. Callcott Musical Gram. iii. 40 A species of Time called Quintuple, which contains five Crotchets in a Bar.
1871 Scribner's Monthly June 214/2 Music has been written in quintuple time, but no musicians have been found able to perform it.
1883 G. Grove Dict. Music (1900) III. 61/2 The quintuple rhythm is expressed by alternate bars of 2-4 and 3-4.
1938 Oxf. Compan. Music p. xlvii/2 Mixed bars of 2/4 + ¾ (Quintuple Time) nowadays occur and are shown as ?.
1986 D. M. Randel New Harvard Dict. Music 489/1 There are some well-known exceptions such as the second movement of Tchaikovsky's Symphony no. 6, which is in 5/4 or quintuple meter.
2005 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 4 June 12 You only have to hear the delightful quintuple-time scherzo and vigorous finale of the Third Symphony to realise that he could break free with ideas of enchanting brilliance.
B. n.
A fivefold number or amount; a set of five things or parts; a group of five.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > five > [noun] > multiplication by five > five times as much
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > five > [noun] > group of five
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1662 W. Petty Treat. Taxes xv. 74 Especially if Strong Beer pay quintuple unto, (as now) or any more excize then the small.
1684 J. Wallis Treat. Angular Sections iv. 27 The Quintuple of the Subtense of an Arch.
1705 E. Scarburgh Eng. Euclide 41 For in the naming double and half, who does not presently conceive the same evident truth in triples, quadruples, quintuples.
1785 W. Herschel in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 75 91 Five more [stars] in view, differently dispersed about the quintuple.
1860 tr. C. R. Fresenius Syst. Instr. Quantitative Chem. Anal. ii. 541 It is advisable to take a multiple of this weight... For inferior ores, I recommend the quadruple, = 3·961, or the quintuple, = 4952.
1866 Littell's Living Age 8 Dec. 596 The five-franc piece,..the quintuple of the franc itself.
1903 Amer. Jrnl. Math. 25 108 The quintuple of collinear lines contains 19 arbitrary constants.
1928 R. R. Kuczynski Balance of Births & Deaths I. 121 The total fertility, being the quintuple of the sum of the quinquennial [birth] rates.
1990 Lit. & Ling. Computing 5 151/2 The bibliographical data about each book are stored in a separate file in the form of a quintuple.
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1805 tr. K. L. Willdenow Princ. Bot. & Veg. Physiol. 34 A leaf is said to be..Quintuple-nerved, (quintuplinervium), when out of the middle rib, above the base, there arise two nerves running towards the point.
1839 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (ed. 3) 129 A leaf is said to be three, or five, or otherwise nerved, if the so-called nerves all proceed from the very base of the lamina, but it is called triple, quintuple, &c. nerved, if the nerves all proceed from above the base of the lamina.
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1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. xiii. ii. f. 390v If a right line, be in power quintuple to a segment of the same line.
1636 W. Bedwell tr. P. de la Ramée Via Regia ad Geometriam xxvi. 288 Now as the halfe of a o, is of quintuple valew to the halfe of y o: so the double a e, is of quintuple power to the double y s.
1840 Times 2 June 3/2 The remedy proposed to remove this increase was a quintuple power to that which existed a century ago.
quintuple proportion n. a ratio of five to one; cf. quintuplicate adj.
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1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Qq1 A proportion Quintuple at most, of the writing infoulding, to the writing infoulded. View more context for this quotation
1641 J. Wilkins Mercury ix. 93 Wee may easily inscribe any secret sence in any ordinary letter, onely by a quintuple proportion of the writing.
1784 J. Keeble Theory of Harmonics ii. iv. 157 Thus it appears that the motion of a minor third in the fundamental bass has its original in the quintuple proportion.
1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia at Music There is also a species of time..which contains five crotchets in a bar... Tartini considered this quintuple proportion as unfit for melody, and impossible to be executed.
1867 Chambers's Information for People (new ed.) II. 261/2 ‘With a good system of agriculture,’ says M'Culloch,..‘the produce of the country might be augmented to an extent not easily imagined—perhaps in a quintuple proportion.’
1987 Jrnl. Mus. Theory 31 42 [In Rameau's system of harmony] the lower and upper seventeenth..provides the quintuple proportion (1:5:25) upon which is founded a subsidiary fundamental bass motion: the progression of thirds.
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1708 G. Vaux tr. J. C. Sturm Mathesis Juvenilis II. 91 A Quintuple [L. quintupla] Ratio, 5 to 1.
1800 R. Fellowes Morality united with Policy 105 The value of money has decreased in at least a quintuple ratio, since the present rates of parliamentary qualification were established.
1837 Dublin Rev. Oct. 449 The Catholics of the United States have advanced in a quintuple ratio since 1800.
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1853 A. Gray Bot. Text-bk. (ed. 4) 163 If two such ribs proceed from each side of the midrib, is it said to be quintuple-ribbed, or quintupli-nerved.
1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. i. iii. 153 If two such ribs arise on each side of the midrib, it is termed quintuple-ribbed or quintuplicostate.
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quintuplev.
/ˈkwɪntjᵿpl/, /ˈkwɪntʃᵿpl/, /kwɪnˈtjuːpl/, /kwɪnˈtʃuːpl/, U.S. /kwɪnˈt(j)up(ə)l/, /kwɪnˈtəp(ə)l/ 1. † b. transitive. To produce five times as much as. Obsolete. rare.
a. transitive. To multiply by five; to make five times as much or as great.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (transitive)] > increase by specific proportion
doublec1290
treblea1325
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sextuple1632
quintuple1639
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quintuplicate1676
fivefold1858
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > five > [verb (transitive)] > multiply by five
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1639 J. Shirley Ball ii. sig. B4v In three moneths your estate Will be five times as much or quintupled.
a1690 S. Jeake Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 200 Quintuple it, and the Product shall be the Divisor.
1749 J. Hodgson Theory Jupiter's Satellites 91 The mean Motion for 20 Years being doubled, tripled, quadrupled, and quintupled, will give the mean Motions for 40, 60, 80, and 100 Years.
1796 C. Burney Mem. Life Metastasio III. 101 I beg of you to quintuple,..the embraces, which I consign to you for her use.
1823 Times 12 Sept. 2/7 The number of horned cattle in New South Wales was quintupled.
a1852 W. Macgillivray Nat. Hist. Dee Side (1855) 21 Who has by his various improvements quintupled his rental.
1889 Spectator 13 Apr. The endless difficulty of communication..quintuples all other difficulties.
1919 Times 4 July p. xvii/6 The Government asked for more..rye, and the previous year's crop was quintupled.
1976 Time 27 Dec. 46/1 Between late 1973 and 1975, OPEC quintupled global oil prices.
2003 Australian 16 Apr. (Brisbane ed.) 22/2 Clipped media group..has been saved from extinction after shareholders yesterday approved a $14 million recapitalisation that quintuples its shares on issue.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > five > [verb (transitive)] > multiply by five > produce five times as much as
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1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. I. 42/2 This, and the celebrated vine at Hampton Court..have quintupled the most prolific.
2. intransitive. To increase fivefold; to become five times as many or as great.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (intransitive)] > in specific proportion
doublec1320
redouble?1473
treblea1625
quadruple1776
quintuple1792
triple1799
octuple1837
sextuple1856
the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > five > [verb (intransitive)] > increase to five times as much
quintuple1792
1792 A. Young Trav. France xix. 499 The real value is known to have quintupled.
1816 Q. Rev. 15 538 The population of London must at least have quintupled since that time.
a1862 H. T. Buckle Misc. Wks. (1872) I. 468 It is stated that within sixty years rents had quintupled.
1903 H. James Ambassadors xii. xxxv. 448 You wouldn't then have seemed worth all you've let me in for. Your value has quintupled.
1928 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 22 309 Prices had quintupled since 1914, but the remuneration of state employees had barely tripled.
2005 J. Diamond Collapse (2006) xii. 360 The number of cities quintupled to almost 700, and existing cities increased greatly in area.
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