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QUINTUPLING

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb quintuple

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