Quint

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Quint \Quint\, n. [F. quinte, fr. L. quintus, quinta, the fifth,
     quinque five. See {Five}.]
     1. A set or sequence of five, as in piquet.
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     2. (Mus.) The interval of a fifth.


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     3. one of a set of {quintuplets}. [informal]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  quint
       n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one [syn: {five},
             {5}, {V}, {cinque}, {quintet}, {fivesome}, {quintuplet},
             {pentad}, {fin}, {Phoebe}, {Little Phoebe}]
       2: one of five children born at the same time from the same
          pregnancy [syn: {quintuplet}, {quin}]