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Quintuple   /kwˈɪntupəl/  /kwˌɪntˈəpəl/   Listen
Quintuple

noun
1.
A set of five similar things considered as a unit.  Synonyms: quintet, quintette, quintuplet.






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"Quintuple" Quotes from Famous Books



... pa-u, garment tucked in one side, Skirt lacelike and beauteous in staining, That is wrapped and made fast about the oven. Bubbly as foam of falling water it stands, 5 Quintuple skirt, sheer as the cliff Kupe-hau. One journeyed to work ...
— Unwritten Literature of Hawaii - The Sacred Songs of the Hula • Nathaniel Bright Emerson

... remember that he actually read this dissertation before the Florentine Academy on the second Sunday in Lent, in the year 1546, when Michelangelo was still alive and hearty. He afterwards sent it to the press; and the studied trumpet-tones of eulogy, conferring upon Michelangelo the quintuple crown of pre-eminence in painting, sculpture, architecture, poetry, and loving, sounded from Venice down to Naples. The style of the oration may strike us as rococo now, but the accent of praise and appreciation is surely genuine. ...
— The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti • John Addington Symonds

... chap. vi: Forms of Water, sections 55 and 56.] raise a quantity of cast iron five times the weight of the glacier not only to a white heat, but to its point of fusion. If, as I have already urged, instead of being filled with ice, the valleys of the Alps were filled with white-hot metal, of quintuple the mass of the present glaciers, it is the heat, and not the cold, that would arrest our attention and solicit our explanation. The process of glacier making is obviously one of distillation, in which the fire of the sun, which ...
— Fragments of science, V. 1-2 • John Tyndall



Words linked to "Quintuple" :   multiply, quintupling, quintet, quintuplet, manifold, set, quintette, five-fold, multiple



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