英和和英

発音

• (Received 発音, 英国発音) enPR: kwĭntāʹshən, IPA^(key): /kwɪnˈteɪʃən/

名詞

quintation (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 quintations)

1. (まれに) 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.

等位語

• (proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part): septimation (1/7), decimation (1/10), vicesimation (1/20), tricesimation (1/30), centesimation (1/100)