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quinary

(ˈkwaɪnərɪ)
adj
1. consisting of fives or by fives
2. fifth in a series
3. (Mathematics) (of a number system) having a base of five
n, pl -ries
a set of five
[C17: from Latin quīnārius containing five, from quīnī five each]
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Quinary

 a set of five things.
Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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A naturalist, struck by a parallelism of this nature in any one class, by arbitrarily raising or sinking the value of the groups in other classes (and all our experience shows that this valuation has hitherto been arbitrary), could easily extend the parallelism over a wide range; and thus the septenary, quinary, quaternary, and ternary classifications have probably arisen.
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Lai also surveys the colors employed in early Chinese artifacts from the Neolithic to the Western Han and contends that "magicoreligious practices" influenced the shift from a binary red-black system to a quinary five-color system in the Eastern Zhou (p.
By now, a number of studies on the Br-bearing phase equilibria have been done, such as quaternary systems KCl-KBr-[K.sub.2]S[O.sub.4]-[H.sub.2]O at 323 K, 348 K, and 373 K [5-7], NaBr-Sr[Br.sub.2]-Mg[Br.sub.2]-[H.sub.2]O and KBr-Sr[Br.sub.2]-Mg[Br.sub.2]-[H.sub.2]O at 323 K [8], and quinary system [Na.sup.+], [K.sup.+]//[Cl.sup.-], [Br.sup.-], and S[O.sub.4]2-[H.sub.2]O at 373 K [9].
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