quintuple

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adjective

quin·tu·ple kwin-ˈtü-pəl

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: 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.

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Adjective

Musk, the founder and CEO of the commercial space transportation company, is hoping to win federal approval for SpaceX to quintuple the amount of flight tests conducted in 2024. —

Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2025 The outcome defies common sense and goes against bedrock principles of our legal system, such as deference to historical decisions and no double jeopardy—in this case, the ‘912 patent has been subjected to quintuple jeopardy. —

Chuck Hong, Fortune, 9 Aug. 2024

Verb

During the war, the Kaiser shipyards attracted tens of thousands of workers of all races and backgrounds to this then-semi-rural bayside community, quintupling its population and transforming it into an industrial boomtown of more than 90,000. —

Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2025 And Harbaugh quadrupled, quintupled … dectupled down on his belief in Herbert. —

Mirjam Swanson, Orange County Register, 15 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for quintuple