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quintuplet
[ kwin-tuhp-lit, -too-plit, -tyoo-, kwin-too-plit, -tyoo- ]
noun
- any group or combination of five, especially of the same kind.
- quintuplets, five children or offspring born of one pregnancy.
- one of five such children or offspring.
- Music. a group of five notes of equal value performed in the time normally taken for four.
quintuplet
/ kwɪnˈtjuËplɪt; ˈkwɪntjÊŠplɪt /
noun
- a group or set of five similar things
- one of five offspring born at one birth Often shortened toquin
- music a group of five notes to be played in a time value of three, four, or some other value
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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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