verb / adjective / noun
quintuple
Five times an original amount.
The new machines quintuple the factory's daily output.
Etymology
The Latin adjective means fivefold. This amount sense directly expresses five repetitions of the original quantity.
More examples
- Ticket sales quintupled after the singer announced a farewell tour.
- The final bill is quintuple the original estimate.
- Fifty is the quintuple of ten.
Forms
quintuple · quintuples · quintupled · quintupling
Similar words
- fivefold
- Expresses the same multiplier as an adjective or adverb.
- multiply
- Describes increasing by a factor, not necessarily by five.