quintuplicate

quintuplicate
I. adjective Etymology: Medieval Latin quintuplicatus, past participle of quintuplicare to quintuple, from quintuplus quintuple Date: 1656 1. consisting of or existing in five corresponding or identical parts or examples <
quintuplicate invoices
>
2. being the fifth of five things exactly alike <
file the quintuplicate copy
>
II. noun Date: 1851 1. one of five things exactly alike; specifically one of five identical copies 2. five copies all alike — used with in <
typed in quintuplicate
>
III. transitive verb (-cated; -cating) Date: circa 1889 1. to make quintuple or fivefold 2. to prepare in quintuplicate

New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.

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