quintation
nounUK /kwɪnˈteɪʃən/
Etymology From quintate + -ion.
1
Rare The removal of one fifth (of something).
- Perhaps the quintation of slats came from the hands of the indentured Hollander.1946, Thomas Hamilton Ormsbee, The Story of American Furniture, page 161:
- Coordinate terms
- septimation (1, 7), decimation (1, 10), vicesimation (1, 20), tricesimation (1, 30), centesimation (1, 100)