multiple twin
/ˌmʌltɪpl ˈtwɪn/noun
1 Telephony. A cable with a number of cores each of which consists of four wires arranged as two twisted pairs twisted together. Usually attributive.
2 Crystallography. A twinned crystal composed of alternating lamellae whose relative orientations are all governed by the same twin law.
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in Encyclopaedia Britannica. From multiple + twin.
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