(n.) The number next greater than four, and less than six; five units or objects.
(n.) A symbol representing this number, as 5, or V.
Example Sentences:
(1) He added: "There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."
(2) In studies of calcium metabolism in 13 unselected patients with untreated sarcoidosis all were normocalcaemic but five had hypercalcuria.
(3) In contrast, resting cells of strain CHA750 produced five times less IAA in a buffer (pH 6.0) containing 1 mM-L-tryptophan than did resting cells of the wild-type, illustrating the major contribution of TSO to IAA synthesis under these conditions.
(4) We examined the karyotype in five individuals of roe-deer (Capreolus capreolus), coming from Southern Moravia.
(5) Five probes of high specificity to individual chromosomes (chromosomes 3, 11, 17, 18 and X) were hybridized in situ to metaphase chromosomes of different individuals.
(6) In contrast to previous reports, these tumours were more malignant than osteosarcomas and showed a five-year survival rate of only 4-2 per cent.
(7) This time is approximately six months for the neuroleptics given orally, one month for antidepressants, and five and a half half-lives for benzodiazepines.
(8) A subsample of patients scoring over the recommended threshold (five or above) on the general health questionnaire were interviewed by the psychiatrist to compare the case detection of the general practitioner, an independent psychiatric assessment and the 28-item general health questionnaire at two different cut-off scores.
(9) Patrice Evra Evra Handed a five-match international ban for his part in the France squad’s mutiny against Raymond Domenech at the 2010 World Cup, it took Evra almost a year to force his way back in.
(10) Five of the nine normal livers had peribiliary glands that showed HLA-DR.
(11) A total of five men appeared at a Moscow courtroom on Sunday.
(12) The concentrations of five normally occurring protease inhibitors in serum and synovial fluid were compared in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthrosis, and normal controls.
(13) Wages for the population as a whole are £1,600 a year worse off than five years ago.
(14) However, this predictive value disappeared when five baseline parameters found to predict the outcome (neopterin, beta 2-microglobulin, p24 antigen, anti-p18 antibody and immunoglobulin A) were adjusted.
(15) In group V, five cases of Taenia saginata parasitosis were studied showing a weak positive reading.
(16) In vivo studies were performed in five healthy subjects for at least 3 h after ingestion of radiolabeled meals.
(17) Of the five committees asked to develop bills, four have completed their work, and the Senate Finance Committee announced today that it will move forward next week.
(18) Mild swallowing difficulties occurred in 18 patients (39%), moderate dysfunction in 23 (50%), and severe dysfunction in five (11%).
(19) Finally, the automatized measurement system cuts the time spent by a factor of more than five.
(20) Four of the five ectopic pregnancies occurred in patients with previously documented tubal pathology.
Quintuple
Definition:
(a.) Multiplied by five; increased to five times the amount; fivefold.
(v. t.) To make fivefold, or five times as much or many.
Example Sentences:
(1) The largest increases in brain weights in both sexes occurred during the first 3 years of life, when the value quadruples over that at birth, while during the subsequent 15 years the brain weight barely quintuples over that at birth.
(2) Japan 's 'quintuple dip' recession delivers a fresh blow to Abenomics Read more Economics minister Akira Amari said a lack of workers available for public works projects worth billions of pounds restricted the government’s ability to bolster the economy.
(3) In Types II, III, V and most Type IV capillaries, the interendothelial junctions contained quintuple-layered zones.
(4) 4.40pm BST 83 min: "Somewhere in China there is a factory that makes inflatable plastic sheep that is desperately waiting for the word that they can go ahead and quintuple this summer's production run," says Marie Meyer.
(5) When we infused autologous plasma, incubated with dialyzer cellophane, into rabbits and sheep, sudden leukopenia and hypoxia occurred, with doubling of pulmonary-artery pressures and quintupling of pulmonary-lymph effluent.
(6) By a double-antibody RIA method, we assayed LH and FSH in quintuplicate or triplicate in each sample and counted the tubes twice consecutively.
(7) Almost every constituency party across the country we contacted reported doubling, trebling, quadrupling or even quintupling membership, and a revival of branches that had been moribund for years and close to folding.
(8) Both prothrombin and plasminogen show internal sequence homology resulting from partial gene duplication and quintuplication respectively; each internal homology loop in prothrombin shows significant homology with each of the five putative loops in plasminogen.
(9) One case of grade 1 papillary carcinoma and some of grade 2 showed a small proportion of aneuploid cells; the proportion quintupled in grade 3.
(10) Hyaluronic acid content was determined in quintuplicate colorimetrically after treatment of streptococci with hyaluronidase.
(11) Using standard TAT and CGG homopolymers, single, triple, and quintuple molecular replacements are made.
(12) Single SETi or FETi impulses can initiate an IR contraction, and cause altered phasing, with up to a quintupling of frequency.
(13) When choline replaces Na+ in perfusate and bathing medium, cell volume doubles, and intercellular space volume nearly quintuples.
(14) Profits quintupled compared with the same period in 2012 – in part due to its new UK operation.
(15) After three postwar decades when cheap oil was taken for granted, the oil-importing nations were hit for six by the 1973-74 oil shock, and Healey’s chancellorship was beleaguered by a quintupling of the price of oil.
(16) Polling on the subject is shot through with inconsistencies, but one thing screams out from the data : according to the UK Energy Research Centre, between 2005 and 2013, the share of people who rejected the very idea of climate change almost quintupled, from 4% to 19%.
(17) A quintuple mutant, with all cysteines converted to alanines (Quint), was also constructed.
(18) The authors report a case of Werner's syndrome complicated by quintuplicate malignancy, and review the literature data.
(19) About three thousand resin vascular casts of human renal glomeruli were examined with a scanning electron microscope, and two extremely rare glomeruli with quadruple or quintuple efferent arterioles were found.
(20) The result is a large platelike, quintuple-layered structure, 240-260 A thick, whose long axis parallels that of the mitochondrion.