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quintuplet

[ kwin-tuhp-lit, -too-plit, -tyoo-, kwin-too-plit, -tyoo- ]

noun

  1. any group or combination of five, especially of the same kind.
  2. quintuplets, five children or offspring born of one pregnancy.
  3. one of five such children or offspring.
  4. Music. a group of five notes of equal value performed in the time normally taken for four.


quintuplet

/ kwɪnˈtjuËplɪt; ˈkwɪntjÊŠplɪt /

noun

  1. a group or set of five similar things
  2. one of five offspring born at one birth Often shortened toquin
  3. music a group of five notes to be played in a time value of three, four, or some other value
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of quintuplet1

First recorded in 1870–75; quintuple + -et
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A set of quintuplets from New Jersey are now all graduates of the same school in their home state — albeit with different majors.

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And Lim’s soft playing is particularly sensitive, as in the pleading quality he brings to a tiny pianissimo quintuplet in Op.

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In 2014, for example, a Quebec woman convinced her town she was expecting quintuplets.

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Two sets of quintuplet lambs have been born in a "one in a million" event, a farmer has said.

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A ghostly river sculpture in Bilbao, quintuplet tiger cubs and the White House turns pink.

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