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quincuplex

quincuplex is the rare form of quintuplex.

Meaning of quintuplex

Adjective

quintuplex (not comparable)

  1. Synonym of quintuple in its various senses.
    • This was entered 1 ♅. iii., in November, 1776, and had the honour of being the object to which the grand forty-foot reflector was first directed, in February, 1787, under the designation of “quadruple.” As a trapezium it was gazed at, measured, and delineated, for upwards of fifty years, when Σ....1844, William Henry Smyth, “θ¹ Orionis”, in Cycle of Celestial Objects, for the Use of Naval, Military, and Private Astronomers, volume the second (The Bedford Catalogue), London: John W[illiam]...
    Synonyms:
    quintuple

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Origin of quincuplex

Learned borrowing from Latin quīncuplex.

Questions about quincuplex

What is quincuplex the rare form of?
Quincuplex is the rare form of quintuplex.

Words near quincuplex in the dictionary

  1. quincunx
  2. quincunxes
  3. quincunxial
  4. quincunxially
  5. quincuple
  6. quincuplex
  7. Quincy
  8. Quinde
  9. quindec-
  10. quindecad
  11. quindecads

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