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单词 quinquesection
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quinquesectionn.

Brit. /ˈkwɪŋkwᵻˌsɛkʃn/, U.S. /ˈkwɪŋkwəˌsɛkʃ(ə)n/
Forms: 1600s– quinquesection, 1600s– quinquisection.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin quinquesectio.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin quinquesectio, quinquisectio (1631 in the passage translated in quot. 1647) < classical Latin quīnque five (see quinque- comb. form) + sectiō section n. Compare later quinquesect v.
Mathematics.
Division into five equal parts; an instance of this.
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1647 R. Wood tr. W. Oughtred Key Math. 120 The quinquisection of an angle.
1654 J. Newton Institutio Mathematica To Rdr. sig. A2v In the trisection and quinquisection of an angle we have proceeded Algebraically.
1786 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 76 16 The division of the arc of 90..required trisections and quinquesections.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 320 I was apprehensive some error might arise from quinquesection and trisection.
1923 Ann. Math. 24 352 The problem of quinquisection was completely solved by Rogers who showed that it depends on the solution of two diophantine equations.
1999 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 32 220 The process of quinquesection used an identical approximation procedure, but was even more tedious.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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