Usually means: Group of five performing together.
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  1. quintet: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. quintet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. quintet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. quintet: Collins English Dictionary
  5. quintet: Vocabulary.com
  6. Quintet: Wordnik
  7. quintet: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. quintet: Wiktionary
  9. quintet: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. quintet (quintette): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. quintet: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. quintet: Dictionary.com
  13. quintet: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. quintet: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Quintet (Prokofiev), Quintet (company), Quintet (disambiguation), Quintet (film), Quintet (grappling), Quintet, The Quintet (V.S.O.P. album), The Quintet (album): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Quintet: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. quintet: Rhymezone
  18. quintet: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. quintet: Free Dictionary
  20. quintet: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. quintet: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. quintet: Wordnik

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. quintet: Encyclopedia

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Quintet: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. quintet: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary

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noun:  (music) A composition (a type of chamber music) in five parts (typically each a singer or instrumentalist, sometimes several musicians)
noun:  (music) A group of five musicians, fit to play such a piece of music together
noun:  Any group of five members

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