<verb.change> The population of China quintupled [ adj ]
having five units or components
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Quintuple \Quin"tu*ple\, a. [L. quintus fifth: cf. F. quintuple, L. quintuplex. Cf. {Quadruple}.] Multiplied by five; increased to five times the amount; fivefold.
{Quintuple time} (Mus.), a time having five beats in a measure. It is seldom used.
Quintuple \Quin"tu*ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Quintupled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Quintupling}.] [Cf. F. quintupler.] To make fivefold, or five times as much or many.
Today there are 6.2 million, and card marketing directors predict the number will quintuple by 1993.
One special education school in the southern Russian city of Oryol has seen the number of retarded children it serves more than quintuple during a period when the city's population only doubled, the daily Sovietskaya Rossia reported.
But a series of tests conducted this week determined that Garner should have a quintuple bypass.