Quint (Noun)
Meaning 1
The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
Classification
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure.
Examples
- A group of quintuplets consisted of a quint of energetic boys.
- There are only a quint of employees left after the downsizing of the company.
- This difficult problem required the team to split into a quint and brainstorm together.
- It is estimated that less than a quint of participants successfully finished the entire challenge.
- It takes exactly a quint of 30 seconds of penalty in chess when three illegal moves have been made by one player.
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Meaning 2
One of five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.