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QUINTUPLING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does quintupling mean?
• QUINTUPLING (noun)
The noun QUINTUPLING has 1 sense:
1. increasing by a factor of five
Familiarity information: QUINTUPLING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Increasing by a factor of five
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("quintupling" is a kind of...):
multiplication (a multiplicative increase)
Derivation:
quintuple (increase fivefold)
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