Definitions for quintkwɪnt

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

quintkwɪnt(n.)

  1. a quintuplet.

    Category: Medicine, Informal

Origin of quint:

1930–35; shortened form

Princeton's WordNet

  1. five, 5, V, cinque, quint, quintet, fivesome, quintuplet, pentad, fin, Phoebe, Little Phoebe(noun)

    the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one

  2. quintuplet, quint, quin(noun)

    one of five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy

Wiktionary

  1. quint(Noun)

    an interval of one fifth

  2. quint(Noun)

    (in piquet) a sequence of five playing cards of the same suit; equivalent to a straight flush in poker

  3. quint(Noun)

    a quin or quintuplet

  4. quint(Noun)

    A vehicle used by firefighters that combines the capabilities of a fire engine and a fire truck, having the ability to provide vertical access as well as pump water to fight a fire.

  5. quint(Noun)

    quinte; In fencing, the fifth fencer in parrying or attacking position.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Quint(noun)

    a set or sequence of five, as in piquet

  2. Quint(noun)

    the interval of a fifth


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