1. one of five children born at the same birth
2. a group or set of five similar things

Examples

• The hospital prepared five cribs for the quintuplets.
• She was one of the famous quintuplets born in 1934.
• The quintuplets were all healthy despite being born prematurely.
• Raising quintuplets requires enormous amounts of time and energy.
• The musical phrase contained a quintuplet of sixteenth notes.
• The quintuplet rhythm added complexity to the composition.