Dictionary Definition
quint
Noun
1 the cardinal number that is the sum of four and
one [syn: five, 5, V, cinque, quintet, fivesome, quintuplet, pentad, fin, Phoebe, Little
Phoebe]
2 one of five children born at the same time from
the same pregnancy [syn: quintuplet, quin]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- (A musical or piquet term, or a quintuplet) /kwɪnt/
- (A fencing term) /kwɛ̃/
Noun
- an interval of one fifth
- (in piquet) a sequence of five playing cards of the same suit; equivalent to a straight flush in poker
- a quin or quintuplet
- quinte; In fencing, the fifth fencer in parrying or attacking position.
Extensive Definition
Quint may refer to:
- Quint (Jaws character), a character from Jaws
- Quint (fire apparatus), a piece of fire apparatus combining the features of an engine and a ladder truck
- Quint (Mega Man), an evil robot in the Mega Man game series
- Quint (Spider Riders), a shipmaker in the series of novels Spider Riders
- Quintinius Verginix, a character from The Edge Chronicles
- Catherine Guy-Quint, a French politician
- Charles Quint (Charles V), Holy Roman Emperor
- Peter Quint, a principal character in The Turn of the Screw
- Quint-, a numerical prefix meaning five
- A type of sackbut (musical instrument)
- A type of stop on a pipe organ
- A tandem bicycle with five seats
- A component of a graphical GUI scrollbar widget
- The Quint Networking Technology (QNT) is a modular network data link program focused on providing a multi-band modular capability to close the seams between five nodes - Aircraft, UCAV, Weapons, tactical UAV and dismounted ground forces.
quint in German: Quint
quint in Japanese: クイント