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 by five
  • adjective being the fifth in a set of five
  • noun a set of five like or identical 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

[Latin quīntus, fifth; see quintuple + (quadru)plicate.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Latin quintus ("fifth") + plicare ("to fold"); probably patterned after duplicate from Latin duplicare ("to double")

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Examples

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  • This indenture of lease, made and entered into in quintuplicate … The VCA president signed evenly along the dotted line.

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  • I completed the paperwork and wrote in my chart: Forms completed in quintuplicate. posted by #1 Dinosaur @ 2:38 PM

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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.

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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.

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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 forty—eight.

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  • Extracted proteins (10 µl) were spotted, in quintuplicate, on nitrocellulose membranes (Bio-Rad, Hercules CA-USA).

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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.

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

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