Quintade

Quick meaning: Quintade is a noun meaning Synonym of pentad: A 5-year period, particularly in reference to the first and second halves of calendrical decades.

Meaning

Synonym of pentad: A 5-year period, particularly in reference to the first and second halves of calendrical decades.

Example Sentences

It promises to be valuable for petrol blends early in the 2009-2013 quintade, particularly if whey bioethanol production falls short of demand.

The number of deaths by each of these is set down in parallel columns for different ages from one year up to five, and in quintades, from five to a hundred.

For 5-year-intervals (referred to in the following as “quintades” in analogy to decades) there is a marked drop of absolute and relative publications frequencies since the 1990s with a maximum of 4.2 % in the quintade 1985–1989 and the minimum of 1.6 % in 2010–2014 (see Fig. 1).

Word Forms

• quintades

Synonyms for quintade

Depending on context, synonyms include pentad.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sesquialtera, quintadena, sext, quintole, diapason, quintad.

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