[ noun ] increasing by a factor of five <noun.process>
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.
Sun Microsystems Inc., as expected, posted a near quintupling of its fiscal second-quarter profit because of early completion of a new manufacturing plant and brisk demand for the company's products.
Thomas has no particular nuclear background, but got his start at EPA reviving the nearly abortive "superfund" toxic waste cleanup program in 1983, and presided over a quintupling of the program then and as administrator after 1985.
The report gives details of changes throughout the federal government, from a quintupling of the Pentagon's budget for secret activities to proposing that a report on geriatric education be reviewed before publication.