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Quincunx

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

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

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. An arrangement of five units in a pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice, playing cards, or dominoes.

n. An angle of five-twelfths of a circle, or 150°, between two objects.

n. A bronze coin minted during the Roman Republic, valued at five-twelfths of an as.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. An arrangement of things by fives in a square or a rectangle, one being placed at each corner and one in the middle; especially, such an arrangement of trees repeated indefinitely, so as to form a regular group with rows running in various directions.

n. The position of planets when distant from each other five signs, or 150°.

n. A quincuncial arrangement, as of the parts of a flower in æstivation. See Quincuncial, 2.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. An arrangement of five objects in a square, one at each corner and one in the middle (thus, ); especially, an arrangement, as of trees, in such squares continuously.

n. In botany, same as quincuncial estivation (which see, under quincuncial).

n. In astrology, the position of planets when distant from each other five signs or 150°.

n. A Roman brass coin of five unciæ.

n. A reliquary in the shape of a cross, the four parts of which can be folded over the central one.

Word Usage

"There is also one extra division of 150 degrees, the quincunx, which is an aspect of change."

Variant

quincuncial

Form

quincuncial

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