quintation
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See also: Quintation
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation, UK) enPR: kwĭntāʹshən, IPA(key): /kwɪnˈteɪʃən/
Noun[edit]
quintation (countable and uncountable, plural quintations)
- (rare) The removal of one fifth (of something).
- 1946, Thomas Hamilton Ormsbee, The Story of American Furniture, page 161:
- Perhaps the quintation of slats came from the hands of the indentured Hollander.
Coordinate terms[edit]
- (proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part): septimation (1/7), decimation (1/10), vicesimation (1/20), tricesimation (1/30), centesimation (1/100)