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quincunx

/ˈkwɪŋkʌŋks/

quincunx noun: an arrangement of five units with four forming the corners of a square and the fifth at the centre of the square, a pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice, playing cards, or dominoes.

Noun

quincunx (plural quincunxes or quincunces)

  1. An arrangement of five units with four forming the corners of a square and the fifth at the centre of the square, a pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice, playing cards, or dominoes.
  2. An angle of five-twelfths of a circle, or 150°, between two objects.
  3. A Galton board.
    • In 1873–74 Sir Francis Galton (Charles Darwin’s cousin) designed an apparatus that he later named the quincunx.1998, Deborah J. Bennett, Randomness, Harvard University Press, page 104
  4. (historical) A bronze coin minted during the Roman Republic, valued at five-twelfths of an as.

quincunx meaning in Kannada

quincunx in Kannada

ಪಂಚಕ, ಪಂಚಕ ವಿನ್ಯಾಸ

Forms of quincunx

pluralquincunxes
pluralquincunces

Origin of quincunx

Borrowed from Latin quīncunx.

Words formed from quincunx

Words that rhyme with quincunx

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Questions about quincunx

What does quincunx mean?
Quincunx means an arrangement of five units with four forming the corners of a square and the fifth at the centre of the square, a pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice, playing cards, or dominoes.
What is quincunx in Kannada?
Quincunx in Kannada is ಪಂಚಕ, ಪಂಚಕ ವಿನ್ಯಾಸ. See Quincunx meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is quincunx?
Quincunx is a noun.
How do you pronounce quincunx?
Quincunx is pronounced /ˈkwɪŋkʌŋks/.
What is the plural of quincunx?
The plural of quincunx is quincunxes.

Words near quincunx in the dictionary

  1. quinconazole
  2. quincubital
  3. quincunces
  4. quincuncial
  5. quincuncially
  6. quincunx
  7. quincunxes
  8. quincunxial
  9. quincunxially
  10. quincuple
  11. quincuplex

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quincunx (page history and authors); quincunx (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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