Adjective Share prices are quintuple what they were a few days ago. Verb The town's population has quintupled in the past 50 years. The company has quintupled the number of its employees.
Recent Examples on the Web
Adjective
King himself was plagued with health issues in his later years that included several heart attacks, and a quintuple bypass surgery in 1987. Kim Lyons, The Verge, 23 Jan. 2021 The quintuple-feature starred a towering thunderhead, a menacing shelf cloud, a vibrant rainbow, a glorious sunset and concluded with a fireball that shot across the night sky. Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 29 July 2022 With a time of 2 hours and 19 minutes, Chad earned the record for fastest male marathoner to push a quintuple carriage, according to Guinness World Records. Diane Herbst, PEOPLE.com, 17 June 2022 The quintuple shooting marks the latest incident in what has been a violent start to 2022. Drake Bentley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Feb. 2022 The song went quintuple platinum and remained Logic's best performing song on Spotify with more than 1 billion streams. Christopher Brito, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2021 Surviving heart problems, including several heart attacks and quintuple bypass surgery in 1987, led King to establish the Larry King Cardiac Foundation to help those without insurance afford medical treatment.CNN, 3 Nov. 2021 The death penalty can be illogical: In the six months before Moormann was put to death, Arizona taxpayers paid for his emergency appendectomy and a quintuple bypass. Jen Fifield, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2021 Kawaguchi captained North Dakota in his final season, which ended over the weekend in a quintuple-overtime loss to Minnesota-Duluth. Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 2 Apr. 2021
Verb
Doing so could effectively quintuple the number of available shots, since the method uses only a fifth of a full dose. Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2022 They don’t get paid more for signing off on your edgy, disruptive media campaign that is going to quintuple sales this quarter. Ryan Blanch, Forbes, 11 July 2022 Kenny Burns is an investor, and the brand will reportedly quintuple its revenue from this same time last year.Essence, 22 Dec. 2021 Gelsinger anticipates the amount of chips built into an upscale passenger car will quintuple by 2030, incorporating a fifth of the overall bill of materials (BOM). Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2021 Tesla's much-better-than-expected earnings in Q2 cheered investors and inspired long-time fan Cathie Wood of Ark Invest to predict that its shares will quintuple to $3,000 by 2025. Shawn Tully, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2021 In a study for the Greater Washington Partnership, Ernst & Young predicted that the number of workers between Richmond and Baltimore who telework a few days a week could quintuple from pre-pandemic levels.Washington Post, 27 July 2021 Demand in Southeast Asia could quintuple over the next decade. Jude Clemente, Forbes, 4 June 2021 The Federal government would effectively quintuple the number of EV charging stations nationwide, from approximately 110 thousand to 500 thousand by the end of the decade. Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 10 May 2021 See More
Word History
Etymology
Adjective
Middle French, from Medieval Latin quintuplus, from Latin quintus fifth + -plus -fold; akin to Latin quinque five — more at five, -fold