quintuple

American  

[kwin-too-puhl, -tyoo-, -tuhp-uhl, kwin-too-puhl, -tyoo-] / kwɪnˈtu pəl, -ˈtju-, -ˈtʌp əl, ˈkwɪn tʊ pəl, -tjʊ- /

adjective

1. fivefold; consisting of five parts.

2. five times as great or as much.

3. Music. having five beats to a measure.

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noun

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

verb (used with or without object)

quintuples, present (3rd person singular) quintupled, past participle, past quintupling present participle

1. to make or become five times as great.

quintuple British  

/ ˈkwɪntjʊpəl, kwɪnˈtjuːpəl /

verb

1. to multiply by five

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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

Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

Participles

• quintupling
  present
• quintupled
  past

Conjugated Forms

Present

• quintuple
  simple
• quintuples
  simple
• have quintupled
  perfect
• has quintupled
  perfect
• am quintupling
  progressive
• are quintupling
  progressive
• is quintupling
  progressive
• have been quintupling
  perfect progressive
• has been quintupling
  perfect progressive

Past

• quintupled
  simple
• had quintupled
  perfect
• was quintupling
  progressive
• were quintupling
  progressive
• had been quintupling
  perfect progressive

Future

• will quintuple
  simple
• will have quintupled
  perfect
• will be quintupling
  progressive
• will have been quintupling
  perfect progressive

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

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

This month, Rheinmetall set out ambitions to quintuple sales by the end of the decade to the equivalent of roughly $58 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 29, 2025

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