quintuple
/ˈkwɪntjʊp(ə)l
/ /kwɪnˈtjuːp(ə)l /adjective [attributive]
1Consisting of five parts or things: the microscope has a motorized revolving quintuple nosepiece...
- Ministers, who will formally announce the plan tomorrow, insist the quintuple jab is safe, and a positive development for parents because it replaces the whooping cough vaccine, which contained mercury.
- Some doctors feared the confusion could lead to concern that the public might turn against the quintuple jab, despite universal agreement that it is an improvement on earlier vaccines.
- To add to the usual litany of woes that go with ageing, he's had a quintuple heart bypass.
1.1Five times as much or as many: special effects modes on these cameras include quintuple exposure...
- The thing about being independent is that all the profits are quadruple, quintuple what someone on a major label would make.
1.2(Of time in music) having five beats in a bar.His Arraché is a technically challenging piece that ends in a quintuple fugue, demanding the sort of concentration that had wavered during rehearsal the day before.
verb
Increase or cause to increase fivefold: [no object]: the company’s revenues would quintuple over the next decade [with object]: Germany had quintupled her sulphuric acid production since 1880...
- Between 1859 and 1876, the number of pickpockets brought to trial by the district attorney nearly quintupled, increasing from 52 to 242.
- Revenues nearly tripled over that period, and profits quintupled.
- For example, from 1933 to 1945 the number of union members quintupled, from under 3 million to 15 million.
noun
A fivefold number or amount; a set of five.
Derivatives
quintuply
- My website design is so overly complex (can you say quintuply nested tables?) that it'll take him a long time to figure out how it works.
Origin
Late 16th century: via French from medieval Latin quintuplus, from Latin quintus 'fifth' + -plus as in duplus (see duple).