Usually means: Five children born simultaneously.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word quintuplet:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. quintuplet: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. quintuplet: Merriam-Webster
  3. quintuplet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. quintuplet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. quintuplet: Collins English Dictionary
  6. quintuplet: Vocabulary.com
  7. quintuplet: Wordnik
  8. quintuplet: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. quintuplet: Wiktionary
  10. quintuplet: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. quintuplet: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. quintuplet: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. quintuplet: Dictionary.com
  14. quintuplet: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. quintuplet: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Quintuplet: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. quintuplet: Rhymezone
  18. quintuplet: FreeDictionary.org
  19. quintuplet: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. quintuplet: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. quintuplet: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. quintuplet: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. quintuplet: Medical dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Quintuplet: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. quintuplet: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  3. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A group of five, particularly (music) a tuplet of five notes to be played in the time for four.
noun:  One of a group of five, particularly babies born from the same mother during the same birth.
noun:  A cycle adapted for five riders, all of whom can assist in the propulsion.

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