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Definition of quintuplet in English: quintupletnoun kwɪnˈtjuːplɪtˈkwɪntjʊˌplɪt 1usually quintupletsEach of five children born at one birth. 五胞胎之一 Example sentencesExamples - A story about the birth of quintuplets shouldn't send all expectant couples scurrying to buy 5 cribs.
- A 33 year old woman gave birth early on Monday in Beijing to a set of quintuplets through Caesarean operation, eight weeks ahead of schedule.
- Delivered by caesarean section at 29 weeks gestation and weighing from 2 pounds, 3 ounces to 3 pounds, 3 ounces, the quintuplets are expected to be released from the hospital this month.
- Such multiple gestations are rare, with 6,742 sets of triplets, 506 sets of quadruplets, and 77 sets of quintuplets or higher order pregnancies in 2000.
- Identical twins are clones, and the famous Dionne quintuplets born in Canada in 1934 represent a human clone of five people.
- He and his wife, Gisel, are expecting quintuplets in October.
- Interestingly, armadillos always give birth to identical quintuplets.
- Indeed, the Dionne quintuplets were clones of a fertilized egg that divided three times before the cells fell apart and grew into separate individuals.
- But just logistically, I don't know how people do triplets or quadruplets or quintuplets, because I can't carry two babies at the same time.
- Before a similar hot start last season, he probably was best known as the player whose wife gave birth to quintuplets.
- Would you enjoy being a quintuplet in the early 20th century when, as a reproductive anomaly, the simple fact of your existence made your family a freak show.
- That's what happened in 1934, when the Dionne quintuplets first caught the attentions of our country's burgeoning mass media.
- A surrogate mother in Phoenix, Arizona has given birth to quintuplets by caesarean section.
- Since in vitro fertilization started, two decades ago, there has been an explosion of twins, triplets, quadruplets, even quintuplets.
- Commotion over multiple births - quadruplets, quintuplets, sextuplets - isn't new.
2Music
A group of five notes to be performed in the time of three or four. 〔乐〕五连音（指在三拍或四拍时间内均等地奏出的五个音） Example sentencesExamples - At one point, triplets and septuplets in the l.h. are pitted against quintuplets and sextuplets in the r.h.
- There was this very specific attention to every hemidemisemiquaver and how quintuplets were going to inter-relate with this and how the texture of the cymbalom would work with the mandolin versus the harps and so on.
OriginLate 19th century: from quintuple, on the pattern of words such as triplet. Definition of quintuplet in US English: quintupletnoun 1usually quintupletsEach of five children born to the same mother at one birth. 五胞胎之一 Example sentencesExamples - Delivered by caesarean section at 29 weeks gestation and weighing from 2 pounds, 3 ounces to 3 pounds, 3 ounces, the quintuplets are expected to be released from the hospital this month.
- Such multiple gestations are rare, with 6,742 sets of triplets, 506 sets of quadruplets, and 77 sets of quintuplets or higher order pregnancies in 2000.
- Interestingly, armadillos always give birth to identical quintuplets.
- Before a similar hot start last season, he probably was best known as the player whose wife gave birth to quintuplets.
- Since in vitro fertilization started, two decades ago, there has been an explosion of twins, triplets, quadruplets, even quintuplets.
- Commotion over multiple births - quadruplets, quintuplets, sextuplets - isn't new.
- A story about the birth of quintuplets shouldn't send all expectant couples scurrying to buy 5 cribs.
- Identical twins are clones, and the famous Dionne quintuplets born in Canada in 1934 represent a human clone of five people.
- A 33 year old woman gave birth early on Monday in Beijing to a set of quintuplets through Caesarean operation, eight weeks ahead of schedule.
- He and his wife, Gisel, are expecting quintuplets in October.
- Would you enjoy being a quintuplet in the early 20th century when, as a reproductive anomaly, the simple fact of your existence made your family a freak show.
- A surrogate mother in Phoenix, Arizona has given birth to quintuplets by caesarean section.
- That's what happened in 1934, when the Dionne quintuplets first caught the attentions of our country's burgeoning mass media.
- But just logistically, I don't know how people do triplets or quadruplets or quintuplets, because I can't carry two babies at the same time.
- Indeed, the Dionne quintuplets were clones of a fertilized egg that divided three times before the cells fell apart and grew into separate individuals.
2Music
A group of five notes to be performed in the time of three or four. 〔乐〕五连音（指在三拍或四拍时间内均等地奏出的五个音） Example sentencesExamples - There was this very specific attention to every hemidemisemiquaver and how quintuplets were going to inter-relate with this and how the texture of the cymbalom would work with the mandolin versus the harps and so on.
- At one point, triplets and septuplets in the l.h. are pitted against quintuplets and sextuplets in the r.h.
OriginLate 19th century: from quintuple, on the pattern of words such as triplet. |