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subquintuple

subquintuple adjective: having the ratio of one to five.

Adjective

subquintuple (not comparable)

  1. Having the ratio of one to five.
    • If unto this lower Pulley there were added another, then the Power would be unto the Weight in a subquintuple Proportion.1641, John Wilkins, Mercury, or the Secret and Swift Messenger

Origin of subquintuple

From sub- + quintuple.

Questions about subquintuple

What does subquintuple mean?
Subquintuple means having the ratio of one to five.
What part of speech is subquintuple?
Subquintuple is an adjective.

Words near subquintuple in the dictionary

  1. subquest
  2. subquestion
  3. subquestions
  4. subquests
  5. subquinquefid
  6. subquintuple
  7. subquiver
  8. subquivers
  9. subquotient
  10. subquotients
  11. Subra

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