Meanings
adjectivesubquintuple (not comparable)
- not comparableHaving the ratio of one to five.
If unto this lower Pulley there were added another, then the Power would be unto the Weight in a subquintuple Proportion.
1641, John Wilkins, Mercury, or the Secret and Swift Messenger
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