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quint

Pronunciation: (kwint, kint), [key]
—n.
1. an organ stop sounding a fifth higher than the corresponding digitals.
2. Piquet.a sequence of five cards of the same suit, as an ace, king, queen, jack, and ten (quint major), or a king, queen, jack, ten, and nine (quint minor).

quint

Pronunciation: (kwint), [key]
—n. Informal.
a quintuplet.

quint.

(in prescriptions) fifth.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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