quintuple

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adjective

quin·tu·ple kwin-ˈtü-pəl

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ˈkwin-tə-

: being five times as great or as many

: having five units or members

: marked by five beats per measure

quintuple meter

quintuple noun

quintuple

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verb

quintupled; quintupling kwin-ˈtü-p(ə-)liŋ

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ˈkwin-tə-

transitive verb

: to make five times as great or as many

intransitive verb

: to become five times as much or as numerous

Examples of quintuple in a Sentence

Adjective Share prices are quintuple what they were a few days ago. Verb The town's population has quintupled in the past 50 years. The company has quintupled the number of its employees.

Recent Examples on the Web

Adjective

But as writer, director, editor, producer, and star of Lingua Franca, quintuple-threat Sandoval has crafted one of the most unforgettable movies of the year, a quiet but startling snapshot of a woman’s life that feels intimate and complex, all while inexorably enmeshed in larger social context. —

Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 26 Aug. 2020 Throughout his life, the instrumentalist experienced various health issues, having quintuple heart bypass surgery in 2003 and a heart attack in 2015. —

Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2023 Rossington had dealt with serious health issues in recent years, including emergency heart surgery in 2021, almost two decades after undergoing quintuple bypass surgery in 2003. —

Chris Willman, Variety, 5 Mar. 2023 This is despite having quintuple-bypass surgery in 2010 and a defibrillator implanted after a 2018 heart attack. —

Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 17 Jan. 2023 King himself was plagued with health issues in his later years that included several heart attacks, and a quintuple bypass surgery in 1987. —

Kim Lyons, The Verge, 23 Jan. 2021 The quintuple-feature starred a towering thunderhead, a menacing shelf cloud, a vibrant rainbow, a glorious sunset and concluded with a fireball that shot across the night sky. —

Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 29 July 2022 With a time of 2 hours and 19 minutes, Chad earned the record for fastest male marathoner to push a quintuple carriage, according to Guinness World Records. —

Diane Herbst, PEOPLE.com, 17 June 2022 The quintuple shooting marks the latest incident in what has been a violent start to 2022. —

Drake Bentley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Feb. 2022

Verb

Since 1994, the share who have a negative view of both major parties has nearly quintupled and now stands at nearly 3 in 10 Americans, Pew reported. —

David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2023 Stephen Ross’s $1.1 billion investment in the Dolphins has quintupled to $5.7 billion in 15 years . . . —

Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2023 On One Sec, the number of customers using the app to add a delay to trading or banking apps more than quintupled between 2021 and 2022. —

Imani Moise, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023 Since 1999, deaths caused by opioid overdoses have over quintupled, according to the National Institute of Drug Abuse. —

Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 16 Aug. 2023 By the end of last year, revenues had quintupled to $23 billion, while profits stood at $1.4 billion. —

Paolo Confino, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2023 In the eighteen years that Yuskavage has been with Zwirner, her prices have quintupled. —

Ariel Levy, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023 With technology constantly shifting to accommodate micro-markets, and the drivers of music distributions maintaining poor alignment with actual musician needs, the challenges of an unsigned artist have quintupled in size. —

Anto Dotcom, Rolling Stone, 26 July 2023 The county, one of the most affluent in the country, has quintupled in population since 1970 to more than 300,000. —

Giacomo Bologna, Baltimore Sun, 18 July 2023 See More

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