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quintation en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /kwɪnˈteɪʃən/ (Received-Pronunciation, UK)
  • kwĭntāʹshən (Received-Pronunciation, UK)

Etymology

From quintate + -ion.

Meanings

  1. (countable, rare, uncountable) The removal of one fifth (of something).
    • Perhaps the quintation of slats came from the hands of the indentured Hollander. 1946, Thomas Hamilton Ormsbee, The Story of American Furniture, page 161:

Forms

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Coordinates

20) (proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part) · vicesimation (1 (proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part) · tricesimation (1 (proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part) · septimation (1 (proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part) · 100) (proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part) · decimation (1 (proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part) · centesimation (1 (proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part) · 10) (proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part) · 7) (proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part) · 30) (proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part)