quint

UK: /kwɪnt/ US: /kwɪnt/ ,(kwint, kint)

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quint² /kwɪnt/   n. [countable] [Informal.]

1. Medicine, Informal Terms a quintuplet.

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quint¹  (kwint, kint), n. 

1. Music and Dance an organ stop sounding a fifth higher than the corresponding digitals.
2. Games [Piquet.] a sequence of five cards of the same suit, as an ace, king, queen, jack, and ten (quint major,) or a king, queen, jack, ten, and nine (quint minor.)

• Latin quīnta, feminine of quīntus fifth
• French quinte (feminine of quint)
• 1520–30

quint²  (kwint), n. [Informal.]

1. Medicine, Informal Terms a quintuplet.

• shortened form 1930–35

quint., 

1. Drugs (in prescriptions) fifth.

• Latin quīntus

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quint noun

1. / kwɪnt/ an organ stop sounding a note a fifth higher than that normally produced by the key depressed
2. / kɪnt/ a sequence of five cards in the same suit

Etymology: 17th Century: from French quinte, from Latin quintus fifth

quint / kwɪnt/ noun

1. 
   short for quintuplet
   Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): quin