quintuple : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: quintuple	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
quintuple adj having five units or components [syn: quintuple, fivefold, five-fold] n a set of five similar things considered as a unit [syn: quintet, quintette, quintuplet, quintuple] v increase fivefold; "The population of China quintupled"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Quintuple \Quin"tuple\, a. [L. quintus fifth: cf. F. quintuple, L. quintuplex. Cf. {Quadruple}.] Multiplied by five; increased to five times the amount; fivefold. {Quintuple* time} (Mus.), a time having five beats in a measure. It is seldom used.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.