quintuplex
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Synonym of quintuplet: A collection of 5 things.
noun
Synonym of fiveplex: A building divided into 5 residences or businesses.
Example Sentences
- "This was entered 1 ♅. iii., in November, 1776, and had the honour of being the object to which the grand forty-foot reflector was first directed, in February, 1787, under the designation of “quadruple.” As a trapezium it was gazed at, measured, and delineated, for upwards of fifty years, when Σ. announced it “quintuplex,” by the addition of the little star E."
- "The use of those scientific duplex, quadruplex, and even quintuplex systems could then safely be brought into general use, and this would render possible much cheaper telegraphy."
- "We need to point out that in some critical missions, the performance and reliability of a triplex system may not be high enough. In this case, the level of redundancy needs to be increased beyond a triplex system—a quintuplex system (K = 1, N = 5) or a double-triplex system (K = 2, N = 3)."
- "Indeed, physiologically considered, the liver is the great original duplex, while anatomically, it is the enigmatical quintuplex; for it has five lobes, five vessels, five ligaments, five fissures, and, singularlly^([sic]) enough, five letters spells its name."
- "The last-mentioned, the smallest, a girl, was the first-born of the quintuplex and is the one that has survived."
- "And the Pacemaker outperforms all conventional triplexes and quintuplexes."
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin quīntuplex.