quintuplicate

[ noun adjective kwin-too-pli-kit, -tyoo-; verb kwin-too-pli-keyt, -tyoo- ]

noun

1. a group, series, or set of five copies or identical items, especially copies of typewritten matter.

adjective

1. noting or consisting of five identical parts; fivefold.
2. pertaining to a fifth item or copy of something.

verb (used with object)

, quin·tu·pli·cat·ed, quin·tu·pli·cat·ing.

1. to produce or copy in quintuplicate.
2. to make five times as great, as by multiplying.

quintuplicate

adjective

1. fivefold or quintuple

verb

1. to multiply or be multiplied by five

noun

1. a group or set of five things

Derived Forms

• quinˌtupliˈcation, noun

Other Words From

• quin·tupli·cation noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of quintuplicate¹

1650–60; quintu(ple) + -plicate, after duplicate, triplicate, etc.

Idioms and Phrases

Idioms

1. in quintuplicate, in five identical copies.

Example Sentences

That word shouted out in triplicate or quintuplicate is the refrain and credo of director Wes Ball's "Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials," the breathless second chapter of the rare young adult fantasy series that can stand up to "The Hunger Games."

From Los Angeles Times

Their graduates have brought modern office tools to an FBI that still cannot buy a box of pencils without filling out Form FD 369 in quintuplicate — using carbon paper.

From Time

Still another wondered if the government bureaucracy could not cut back on its quintuplicate forms so that the toilet paper shortage could be alleviated.

From Time Magazine Archive

An additional liability: a prose style with the numbing quintuplicate cadence of a Government form.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not a rivet fell, but that its fall was noted—in quintuplicate.

From Project Gutenberg