English

Noun

Quintation

1. Misspelling of Quintaton.
   • 1939, Thomas Scott Godfrey Burhrman [ed.], American Organist (American Guild of Organists), volumes 22–23, page 113

     The Pedal Quintaton and Great Nason Flute are brothers under the skin, as are also the Pedal Rohrquinte and Great Nasat; nobody else in the organ is related to any other body. Quintation is metal but Nason Flute has a wooden head.

English

Noun

quintation

1. (rare) 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.

Coordinate terms

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