quintuple
adjective
quin·tu·ple
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Definition of quintuple
(Entry 1 of 2)
1
: being five times as great or as many
2
: having five units or members
3
: marked by five beats per measure
quintuple meter
quintuple
verb
quintupled;
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Definition of quintuple (Entry 2 of 2)
: to make five times as great or as many
: to become five times as much or as numerous
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Examples of quintuple in a Sentence
Adjective
Share prices are quintuple what they were a few days ago.Verb
The town's population has quintupled in the past 50 years. The company has quintupled the number of its employees.
Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective
In 2010, Entertainment Tonight reported Reynolds underwent quintuple bypass surgery. — Fox News, "Burt Reynolds, legendary actor of 'Smokey and the Bandit' fame, dead at 82," 6 Sep. 2018 The Chase Freedom earns quintuple points (up to $1,500) on rotating quarterly categories that can include department stores, PayPal, and gas stations. — New York Times, "How to Navigate the Complicated World of Credit Card Points," 11 Apr. 2018 Of course, Southerners can make double-syllable double names (Erin Rose), quadruple syllable double names (Emma Louise), and even quintuple syllable double names (Elizabeth Jane) sound downright perfect, too. — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, "How the Double-Name Trend Started And Stayed in the South," 15 Feb. 2018 The Florence Township headquarters of Bettcher Industries, maker of cutting-and-trimming tools, resembled a pristine, quintuple-scale red barn. — Bob Greene, WSJ, "If You Think the U.S. Is Divided and Ugly, Hit the Road," 2 July 2017 Capdeville did not mention specific businesses, but some in attendance cited a neighborhood carwash, which sits near the site of both Saturday's and October's quintuple shootings, as a hotspot for criminal activity. — Beau Evans, NOLA.com, "Mid-City venue cited for 'illegal use' after quintuple shooting," 6 June 2017 After J.P. Morgan Chase released the blockbuster Chase Sapphire Reserve card last year, AmEx began offering quintuple points on airfare. — Aaron Back, WSJ, "Why Platinum Can’t Beat Sapphire," 2 Mar. 2017 Spooked by rising competition, AmEx is now offering quintuple points on hotel bookings through its travel agency and a new credit for Uber rides. — Aaron Back, WSJ, "AmEx: Why You Can Still Leave Home Without It," 5 Mar. 2017Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
Suburban landscapes, predator-free and with lots of low-hanging greenery, turn out to be a perfect habitat for deer, and their population inside the Interstate 495 loop has quintupled since 1985, to 50,000. — Thomas Gerencer, BostonGlobe.com, "Ticks: They’re not just for hikers anymore," 23 Aug. 2019 Top state leaders are weighing whether to hand over management of the 82,500-acre Elliott State Forest to the university’s college of forestry, a transfer that would quintuple Oregon State’s forest holdings. — oregonlive.com, "‘Majestic’ Douglas fir stood for 420 years. Then Oregon State University foresters cut it down," 26 July 2019 The stock, which has nearly quintupled since its initial public offering last month, was up another 28% on Friday morning. — Charley Grant, WSJ, "Beyond Meat Enriches Shareholders with Wisdom," 7 June 2019 The number of private chefs, like McNamee, has quintupled. — Christopher Rugaber, The Seattle Times, "Richer U.S. households fueling a hot job sector: ‘wealth work’," 30 July 2019 The subsidiary’s workforce has roughly quintupled since the acquisition, from about 30 employees to 150, according to its top executives. — Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, "Stem-cell biotech seeing strong growth," 2 July 2019 After a decades-old roller coaster ride with the walleye population, the number of walleye caught in the U.S waters of Lake Erie nearly quintupled — from 417,000 to almost 2 million — between 2011 and 2018. — D'arcy Egan, cleveland.com, "Lake Erie walleye boom’s cause is a mystery, but no one is complaining," 13 July 2019 While households with fewer members have been on the rise over the last 30 years — between 1987 and 2017, one-person households quintupled and two-person households tripled — the share of new one- and two-bedroom homes has been cut nearly in half. — Michael Kolomatsky, New York Times, "Not Enough Homes, and the Wrong Kind," 27 June 2019 CATL’s revenue has quintupled since 2015, and the quality of its batteries is good enough to supply to the likes of BMW . — Jacky Wong, WSJ, "A New Road for Electric Vehicles in China," 25 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'quintuple.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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More Definitions for quintuple
quintuple
adjective
English Language Learners Definition of quintuple
(Entry 1 of 2)
: five times bigger in size or amount
: having five parts or including five people or things
quintuple
verbEnglish Language Learners Definition of quintuple (Entry 2 of 2)
: to become five times bigger in value or number
: to cause (something) to become five times bigger
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