quintade

noun

1. Synonym of pentad: A 5-year period, particularly in reference to the first and second halves of calendrical decades.

   “The number of deaths by each of these is set down in parallel columns for different ages from one year up to five, and in quintades, from five to a hundred.”

   “It promises to be valuable for petrol blends early in the 2009-2013 quintade, particularly if whey bioethanol production falls short of demand.”

   “For 5-year-intervals (referred to in the following as “quintades” in analogy to decades) there is a marked drop of absolute and relative publications frequencies since the 1990s with a maximum of 4.2 % in the quintade 1985–1989 and the minimum of 1.6 % in 2010–2014 (see Fig. 1).”

2. An organ stop corresponding to pewter pipes of 16, 8, 4, and 2 feet.

   “Substituting a Dolce for the Quintade for church use would make this little organ far more useful than some much larger baroque organs that I have played.”

   “The Flute and Principal jump an octave at high pressures, while the Quintade can be heard at the 8’ fundamental using low pressure on the cone-pallet box and can then overblow to the tierce at 90 mm WC.”