quincunx

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Others plant them in form of a quincunx, which is better for the hop, and will do very well where your ground is but small that you may overcome it with either the breast plough or spade.'

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  1. noun An arrangement of five objects with one at each corner of a rectangle or square and one at the center.

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  • Quantum Aspects of Life algorithm atomic bayesian book cavity comb complex computing decoherence diode einselection entropy file-import-08-05-23 fitting free information lasers life locking mathematics natural networks optimization oven quantum quincunx random rubidium rydberg semantic social spectroscopy standards systems thesis web will CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • What is more beautiful than the quincunx, which, whatever way you look, retains the same direct position? —  The Training of a Public Speaker
  • And the loved toil which formed the quincunx, which perforated and extended the grotto until it extended across the road to a garden on the opposite side--the toil which showed the gentler parts of Pope's better nature--has been respected, and its effects preserved. —  The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1
  • In Grave they set the plants in quincunx, i.e. in equilateral triangles of three and a half pieds every side; and they stick a pole of six or eight feet high to every vine, separately. —  Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2
  • Others plant them in form of a quincunx, which is better for the hop, and will do very well where your ground is but small that you may overcome it with either the breast plough or spade.' —  A Short History of English Agriculture
 

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  1. Latin quīncūnx, quīncūnc-, five twelfths : quīnque, five; see penkwe in Indo-European roots + ūncia, twelfth part of a unit; see ounce1.

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  1. = French quinconce = Portuguese quincunce, a quincunx; from Latin quincunx (quincunc-), five twelfths (of anything), from quinque, = English five, + uncia, a twelfth part: see five and ounce.
 

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/ˈkwɪnkəŋks/
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