quintuple
Americanadjective
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fivefold; consisting of five parts.
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five times as great or as much.
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Music. having five beats to a measure.
noun
verb (used with or without object)
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quintuples,
present (3rd person singular)
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quintupled,
past participle, past
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quintupling
present participle
verb
adjective
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five times as much or as many; fivefold
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consisting of five parts
noun
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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quintuplesimple
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quintuplessimple
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have quintupledperfect
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has quintupledperfect
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am quintuplingprogressive
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are quintuplingprogressive
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is quintuplingprogressive
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have been quintuplingperfect progressive
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has been quintuplingperfect progressive
Past
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quintupledsimple
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had quintupledperfect
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was quintuplingprogressive
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were quintuplingprogressive
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had been quintuplingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of quintuple
1560–70; < Middle French < New Latin or Medieval Latin quīntuplus, derivative of quīntus fifth ( see quint 1), on the model of duplus duple, quadruplus quadruple
Example Sentences
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And Raymond James’s Brian Gesuale weighed in with an $800-per-share price target, which is easily the highest on Wall Street and would require shares to essentially quintuple from current levels.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026
That is, with a strange exception: The technology to allow the world to quintuple its coal consumption, such as burning coal in cars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
The country of 800,000 inhabitants saw its GDP almost quintuple in the five years since 2020, according to IMF figures.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2025
The LHC already detects the occasional Higgs pair and should see more after it is upgraded in 2026–29 to quintuple its collision rate.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 27, 2024
No one imagined that the prison population would more than quintuple in their lifetime.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
The population of Los Angeles quintuples in two decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2025
Enthusiasts and scalpers routinely queue for hours outside of flagship Nike stores so they may secure a hot pair of LeBrons before the price tag quintuples on the open market.
From The Verge ● May 25, 2022
The weight of a headset quintuples once you move from an assistant to head coach, and the spotlight — particularly at a Power Five school — can be blinding.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 6, 2021
Tweak those assumptions to 20 percent variable cost and 15 percent penetration and the cost per subscriber quintuples.
From Forbes ● Oct. 11, 2013
Every so often the Beatles step forward and shout, "Oh, shut up," but that only quintuples the screams.
From Time Magazine Archive
By their sixth gathering this past April, attendance had quintupled, with a mix of regulars and newcomers at every session.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
But as estimated 2027 earnings quintupled, the shares a bit more than doubled, so the PE ratio plunged.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026
Since early 2020, shares of hospital operator Tenet Healthcare THC -0.79%decrease; red down pointing triangle have quintupled while HCA Healthcare HCA 0.48%increase; green up pointing triangle has more than tripled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 2026
As of Friday afternoon, American Bitcoin was up 1.9% in volatile trading, after an earnings report showed its revenue had more than quintupled in the third quarter from the same quarter a year ago.
From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2025
There never was anything seen like the state of this town; it is as if the population had been on a sudden quintupled; the uproar, the confusion, the crowd, the noise, are indescribable.
From The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3) by Charles Greville
Pony AI on Tuesday reported a quintupling of robotaxi revenue and increased sales targets as the Chinese vehicle company also saw widening losses.
From MarketWatch ● May 26, 2026
We should never rule out the likelihood that this kind of vibes-based quintupling down will have a nice payoff at the end.
From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2026
Chief Executive Bryon Hargis said it isn’t the straightforward engineering of quintupling the sound barrier that has held the U.S. back, but the manufacturing challenge of mass-producing weapons that can do so reliably and economically.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
Technically, the Mets were quintupling the amount of money they would pay Bonilla.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2023
Love is simply an extension of this process—-making it efficacious before marriage and thus quintupling its importance.
From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry Theophilus Finck
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