mindmap root((QUINT)) quincentennial A 500th anniversary, or the celebration of such an event.
🌱In 1992 Americans celebrated the quincentennial of Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the New World. 🌳The United States is such a young country that it will be quite some time before we reach our quincentennial as a nation: 2276 A.D., to be exact. Some American cities will celebrate their quincentennials long before that, but even St. Augustine, Florida, the nation's oldest city, will have to wait until 2065. Meanwhile, many young people can look forward happily to our national tricentennial in 2076; and their grandchildren may be around for our quadricentennial in 2176. quintessential Representing the purest or most perfect example of something.
🌱As a boy, he had thought of steak, eggs, and home fries as the quintessential Saturday breakfast. 🌳The philosophers and scientists of the ancient world and the Middle Ages believed that the world we inhabit was entirely made up of four elements: earth, air, fire, and water. Aristotle added a fifth element, the aether or ether, by which he meant the material that fills the rest of space, mostly invisibly but sometimes taking the form of stars and planets. Many writers described the element as a kind of invisible light or fire. In the Middle Ages, it was referred to as the quinta essentia （"fifth element"）. It isn't surprising that the quinta essentia came to stand for anything so perfect that it seemed to surpass the limitations of earth. Today we generally use quintessential rather freely to describe just about anything that represents the best of its kind. quintet 1、 A musical piece for five instruments or voices.
2、 A group of five, such as the performers of a quintet or a basketball team.
🌱The team's five starters are considered one of the most talented quintets in professional basketball. 🌳A classical quintet is usually written for strings （usually two violins, two violas, and a cello） or woodwinds （flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and horn）, but brass quintets （two trumpets, horn, trombone, and tuba） have also become popular in North America recently. In jazz, Miles Davis led two famous quintets. In pop music, the Miracles, the Temptations, and the Jackson 5 were immensely popular vocal quintets. In rock, one of the most common instrumental lineups has been a quintet consisting of two guitars, a bass, a keyboard, and drums; famous rock quintets have included the Grateful Dead and the Beach Boys. quintile One or another of the values that divide a tested population into five evenly distributed classes, or one of these classes.
🌱According to the tests, their one-year-old boy ranks high in the second quintile for motor skills. 🌳Americans love statistics about themselves, whether they inform us about our income, ice-cream consumption, or trash production. And any such rating can be divided into fifths, or quintiles. The fifth or lowest quintile would include the 20 percent of the population who make the least money or eat the least ice cream or generate the least trash, and the first quintile would include the 20 percent who make, eat, or generate the most.