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quint ¹  (kwnt)

n.

A sequence of five cards of the same suit in one hand in piquet.

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[French quinte, from Old French, interval of a fifth (in music), feminine of quint, fifth, from Latin quntus; see penk^we in Indo-European roots.]

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quint ²  (kwnt)

n.

A quintuplet.

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quint¹

n

1. (Music, other) an organ stop sounding a note a fifth higher than that normally produced by the key depressed

2. (Group Games / Card Games) Piquet a sequence of five cards in the same suit

[from French quinte, from Latin quintus fifth]

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quint²

n

(Medicine / Gynaecology & Obstetrics) the US and Canadian word for quin

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	quint - the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one 5, cinque, fin, five, fivesome, Little Phoebe, pentad, Phoebe, quintuplet, quintet, V digit, figure - one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration; "0 and 1 are digits"
	2.	quint - one of five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy quin, quintuplet sib, sibling - a person's brother or sister

Translations

quint [kwɪnt] N (US) → quintillizo/a m/f

quint¹

n (US) abbr of quintuplet → Fünfling m

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quint²

n (Mus) → Quint(e) f