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Noun: quintupling  kwin'too-pu-ling
  1. Increasing by a factor of five
    "The quintupling of the town's population over a decade led to rapid urban development"
Verb: quintuple  kwin'too-p(u)l or kwin'tú-p(u)l
  1. Increase fivefold
    "The population of China quintupled"

Type of: manifold, multiplication, multiply

Encyclopedia: Quintuple