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  2. Quint - Wikipedia

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    NATO Quint, an informal decision-making group consisting of France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States; Quint-, a numeral prefix meaning five; A component of a graphical GUI scroll bar widget; Quintuplets, born as part of a multiple birth with five children; Quints (film), a 2000 Disney Channel movie; The Quint, an India ...

  3. Quint (fire apparatus) - Wikipedia

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    A quintuple combination pumper or quint is a fire-fighting apparatus that serves the dual purpose of an engine and a ladder truck. “Quintuple” refers to the five functions that a quint provides: pump, water tank, fire hose, aerial device, and ground ladders. [1] Tillers and tractor-drawn aerials also have quint features, and are dubbed ...

  4. List of pipe organ stops - Wikipedia

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    Octave Quint (English) Open Twelfth (English) Quint (French/German/Dutch) Duodecima (Latin) Docena (Spanish) Mutation: A principal mutation stop of 2 + 2 ⁄ 3 ft and/or 5 + 1 ⁄ 3 ft on the manuals and 5 + 1 ⁄ 3 ft and/or 10 + 2 ⁄ 3 ft on the pedals. Twenty-Second (English) Kleinoctav(e) (German) Vigesima Seconda (Italian) Super Super ...

  5. List of Latin words with English derivatives - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English language. Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words. See also Latin phonology and ...

  6. Numeral prefix - Wikipedia

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    In English and many other languages, they are used to coin numerous series of words. For example: simplex, duplex (communication in only 1 direction at a time, in 2 directions simultaneously) unicycle, bicycle, tricycle (vehicle with 1 wheel, 2 wheels, 3 wheels) dyad, triad, tetrad (2 parts, 3 parts, 4 parts)

  7. Quint (international coalition) - Wikipedia

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    The Quint in its current form seems to have begun as the Contact Group excluding Russia. Nowadays, Quint leaders discuss all major international topics participating in video conferences or meeting one another in various forums such as NATO, the OSCE, the G20 [8] and the UN. The Quint meets also at ministerial and experts' level.

  8. Quintal - Wikipedia

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    The quintal or centner is a historical unit of mass in many countries which is usually defined as 100 base units, such as pounds or kilograms. [1] It is a traditional unit of weight in France, Portugal, and Spain and their former colonies.

  9. List of homophonic abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Download QR code; Print/export ... This is a list of homophonic abbreviations in the English language ... quint (U.S. and Canada) quintuplet. R. rad