quintuple

[kwin-too-puhl, -tyoo-, -tuhp-uhl, kwin-too-puhl, -tyoo-]

adjective

1. fivefold; consisting of five parts.

2. five times as great or as much.

3. Music.,  having five beats to a measure.

noun

1. a number, amount, etc., five times as great as another.

verb (used with or without object)

quintupled, quintupling 

1. to make or become five times as great.

quintuple

/ ˈkwɪntjʊpəl, kwɪnˈtjuːpəl /

verb

1. to multiply by five

adjective

1. five times as much or as many; fivefold

2. consisting of five parts

noun

1. a quantity or number five times as great as another

Word History and Origins

Origin of quintuple¹

1560–70; < Middle French < New Latin or Medieval Latin quīntuplus, derivative of quīntus fifth ( quint ¹ ), on the model of duplus duple, quadruplus quadruple

Word History and Origins

Origin of quintuple¹

C16: from French, from Latin quintus, on the model of _quadruple

Example Sentences

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.

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Bloom has made deals with companies such as Oracle to deploy its fuel cells, and the stock has quintupled this year.

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Deposits had quintupled since Burgess’s arrival in the depths of the housing crisis.

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On the eve of the Games, property management website Hostify.com reported that asking prices for short-term rentals in Paris had quintupled from $154 nightly to $772.

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L.A. was a tumbleweed boomtown whose population had doubled in one decade and quintupled in the next, morphing from village to metropolis in a generation.

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