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quintuplet
[kwin-tuhp-lit, -too-plit, -tyoo-, kwin-too-plit, -tyoo-]
noun
any group or combination of five, especially of the same kind.
quintuplets, five children or offspring born of one pregnancy.
one of five such children or offspring.
Music.a group of five notes of equal value performed in the time normally taken for four.
quintuplet
/ kwɪnˈtjuːplɪt, ˈkwɪntjʊplɪt /
noun
a group or set of five similar things
Often shortened to: quin.one of five offspring born at one birth
music a group of five notes to be played in a time value of three, four, or some other value
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of quintuplet1
Example Sentences
Former child star quintuplets reunite when their stage mom dies.
A set of quintuplets from New Jersey are now all graduates of the same school in their home state — albeit with different majors.
And Lim’s soft playing is particularly sensitive, as in the pleading quality he brings to a tiny pianissimo quintuplet in Op.
In 2014, for example, a Quebec woman convinced her town she was expecting quintuplets.
Two sets of quintuplet lambs have been born in a "one in a million" event, a farmer has said.
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