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quintuplet

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
quintuplet /ˈkwɪntjʊˌplɪt, kwɪnˈtjuːplɪt/

▶noun

1 each of five children born at one birth.

2 Music a group of five notes to be performed in the time of three or four.

– origin C19: from quintuple, on the pattern of triplet.

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