单词 | quintuplicate |
释义 | quintuplicateadj.n. A. adj. Originally: (Mathematics) designating a proportion between two pairs of quantities in which the ratio of one pair is equal to the ratio of the fifth powers of the other pair, and one between two variable quantities in which one has a constant ratio to the fifth power of the other (now historical). Later: (gen.) fivefold; quintuple; consisting of five identical or similar things. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > five > [adjective] > fivefold fivefoldc1000 five-double1552 quintuple?1563 quintuplicate1656 quincuple1724 1656 tr. T. Hobbes Elements Philos. iii. xvi. 175 The Lengths transmitted shall be to the Times in which they are transmitted, in proportion quadruplicate, quintuplicate, [etc.]. 1716 W. Whiston Sir I. Newton's Math. Philos. Demonstrated xv. 166 The Subtense y x will be in the quintuplicate Proportion of the Distance. 1741 C. Perry Treat. Dis. I. iii. vii. 278 The antecedent or first Cause of the Quotidian exists..in a quintuplicate Ratio to that of the Quartan. 1844 R. Hildreth Theory Morals 56 Before the Disinterested Theory of Morals can become at all satisfactory, it must be made consistent with this quintuplicate division of actions. 1932 Hispania 15 66 Professor E. J. Hall urged the adoption of a new quintuplicate form for the collection of dues. 1939 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 26 154/2 Quintuplicate cultures were prepared in Pfeffer's solution. 1982 Science 1 Oct. 63/3 Reactive iron in tidal waters was determined by filtering quintuplicate surface samples from the Duplin River. B. n. †A quintuplicate proportion (obsolete); a set of five identical or similar things; each member of such a set. in quintuplicate: in five identical copies or transcripts. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > five > [noun] > group of five > one of group of five quintuplicate1775 the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > five > [noun] > group of five quinary1598 pentarchy1607 quintetto1773 quintuple1785 quintuplet1795 quintet1833 quince1907 quintuplicatea1940 1775 C. Hutton Diarian Misc. III. 59 The ratio of the first term to the sixth is the quintuplicate of that of the first to the second. 1850 E. D. Mansfield Mexican War (ed. 10) 345 Done in quintuplicate, at the city of Guadaloupe Hidalgo. 1851 R. C. Trench Study of Words (1869) vi. 229 We possess in English a great many duplicates, not to speak of triplicates, or of such a quintuplicate as that which I adduced just now, where the Teutonic, French, Italian, Latin, and Greek had each yielded us a word. a1940 F. S. Fitzgerald Last Tycoon (1941) iii. 41 Miss Doolan's notes would be typed in quintuplicate. 1968 H. Edwards Thirty Years Spiritual Healer v. 51 Records in quintuplicate have to be made for each person attending. 1997 Jrnl. Food Engin. 33 362 Once the samples (quintuplicates) were heated and cooled at the established time and temperature, they were carefully mixed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). quintuplicatev. transitive. To multiply by five; to make five times as many or as great; to quintuple. Also intransitive: to increase by a factor of five. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (transitive)] > increase by specific proportion doublec1290 treblea1325 triplea1400 redouble1477 quadruple1487 sextuple1632 quintuple1639 quinquiplicate1656 quintuplicate1676 fivefold1858 tenfold1858 1676 R. Hooke Descr. Helioscopes 3 Every reflection doth..quadruplicate, quintuplicate, &c. the first proportion of loss. 1783 E. Chambers Cycl. IV. 198/1 Mons. de Lagney published a rule for the sursolid root, or fifth power, which quintuplicates the figures of the roots, at least. 1828 Times 6 Aug. 2/5 Litigation provoked, and costs quintuplicated, by an unseemly multitude of attornies and a frightful enormity of fees. 1909 W. W. Vernon Readings on Paradiso of Dante (rev. ed.) I. 297 (note) Others..understood the words to mean that, before the century then begun should have terminated, the fame of Folco would have been quintuplicated. 1918 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 81 449 The profit..was calculated, in 1913, to have reached 3,000 million lire, having quintuplicated within a period of twenty-three years. 1986 Crain's N.Y. Business (Nexis) 7 Apr. 3 Calvin Cooler is quintuplicating its advertising dollars this year. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1656v.1676 |
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