Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Multiplied by five; fivefold.
- adjective Being the fifth of a set of five identical copies.
- noun One of a set of five identical things.
- noun A set of five copies.
- transitive verb To make five copies of.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make fivefold; increase or repeat to the number of five.
- Consisting of or relating to a set of five, or to five corresponding parts.
- noun One of five things corresponding in every respect to one another.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
multiplied byfive - adjective being the fifth in a set of five
- noun a
set of fivelike oridentical things - noun one
element of such a set - verb transitive to multiply by five
- verb transitive to make five
copies of
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The first time was for a repetitive stress injury to the soft tissue of my hand (my fingers and hand swelled) due to writing so much in quintuplicate for the movie industry (with one period that consisted of about 30 hours straight).
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This indenture of lease, made and entered into in quintuplicate … The VCA president signed evenly along the dotted line.
Yellow Dirt Judy Pasternak 2010
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I completed the paperwork and wrote in my chart: Forms completed in quintuplicate. posted by #1 Dinosaur @ 2:38 PM
Archive 2008-12-01 1 Dinosaur 2008
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I completed the paperwork and wrote in my chart: Forms completed in quintuplicate. posted by #1 Dinosaur @ 2:38 PM
A New Record 1 Dinosaur 2008
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People don't become aid workers to fill out bureaucratic forms in quintuplicate before handing some dirt-poor peasant a blanket.
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People don't become aid workers to fill out bureaucratic forms in quintuplicate before handing some dirt-poor peasant a blanket.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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In her office nothing waited but paperwork, reports in quintuplicate that would generate a flood of questions from headquarters that, as yet, she had no answers for.
Hunting Season Barr, Nevada 2002
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Done in quintuplicate, at the city of Guadalupe Hidalgo, on the second day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fortyeight.
Treaty with Mexico 1909
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Extracted proteins (10 µl) were spotted, in quintuplicate, on nitrocellulose membranes (Bio-Rad, Hercules CA-USA).
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Simone Pacini et al. 2010
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Upon its execution in quintuplicate by the commissioners of each of said states as aforesaid, a duly executed original of said compact shall be filed in the office of the state secretary, together with the original notice of ratification received from the governors of the remaining signatory states, and such notice, if any, as may be received from the president or the congress of the United States, signifying the approval thereof by such congress.
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