— quintuplication , n.
n. , adj. /kwin tooh"pli kit, -tyooh"-/ ; v. /kwin tooh"pli kayt', -tyooh"-/ , n., adj., v., quintuplicated, quintuplicating .
n.
1. a group, series, or set of five copies or identical items, esp. copies of typewritten matter.
2. in quintuplicate , in five identical copies.
adj.
3. noting or consisting of five identical parts; fivefold.
4. pertaining to a fifth item or copy of something.
v.t.
5. to produce or copy in quintuplicate.
6. to make five times as great, as by multiplying.
[ 1650-60; QUINTU(PLE) + -plicate, after DUPLICATE, TRIPLICATE, etc. ]