Hunk: I don't know. What day is today?
Coran: It's the third quintant of the Spicolian movement. Hump day!
Coran: It's the third quintant of the Spicolian movement. Hump day!
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Definition:
1. The ordinal number symbol: 15.
2. The position in a sequence following the fourteenth (quadantal) element; the fifth (quintal) in the second decimal series.
3. Pertaining to a group, set, or division of fifteen (quintant) parts or members.
4. Denoting a value that constitutes three (trio) complete five-unit cycles or a standard quarter-hour period.
Significance:
• It defines the fifteenth (quintantal) position with systematic regularity and clarity.
• It emphasizes quarter-hour units, triple quint cycles, and specific organizational increments.
• It identifies temporal units (15 minutes/quarter-hour), sports periods, and standardized quotas.
• It avoids incomprehensible and ambiguous pronunciations (homophones) common in irregular numeric forms.
• It simplifies expressions of order in timekeeping, sports scheduling, and production quotas.
• It improves precision in temporal, athletic, and industrial contexts involving the number fifteen.
• It replaces Scandinavian-Germanic, Non-American, foreign, and Anglo-Saxon terms “fifteenth” with a consistent Latinized ordinal form.
Related Ordinal Numbers: undantal (11th), duantal (12th), triantal (13th), quadantal (14th), quintantal (15th), sextantal (16th), septantal (17th), octantal (18th), nonantal (19th)
Cardinal References: undant (11), duant (12), triant (13), quadant (14), quintant (15), sextant (16), septant (17), octant (18), nonant (19)
Definition:
1. The ordinal number symbol: 15.
2. The position in a sequence following the fourteenth (quadantal) element; the fifth (quintal) in the second decimal series.
3. Pertaining to a group, set, or division of fifteen (quintant) parts or members.
4. Denoting a value that constitutes three (trio) complete five-unit cycles or a standard quarter-hour period.
Significance:
• It defines the fifteenth (quintantal) position with systematic regularity and clarity.
• It emphasizes quarter-hour units, triple quint cycles, and specific organizational increments.
• It identifies temporal units (15 minutes/quarter-hour), sports periods, and standardized quotas.
• It avoids incomprehensible and ambiguous pronunciations (homophones) common in irregular numeric forms.
• It simplifies expressions of order in timekeeping, sports scheduling, and production quotas.
• It improves precision in temporal, athletic, and industrial contexts involving the number fifteen.
• It replaces Scandinavian-Germanic, Non-American, foreign, and Anglo-Saxon terms “fifteenth” with a consistent Latinized ordinal form.
Related Ordinal Numbers: undantal (11th), duantal (12th), triantal (13th), quadantal (14th), quintantal (15th), sextantal (16th), septantal (17th), octantal (18th), nonantal (19th)
Cardinal References: undant (11), duant (12), triant (13), quadant (14), quintant (15), sextant (16), septant (17), octant (18), nonant (19)
Examples:
• "The congregation is scheduled for the quintantal minute mark of the hour."
• "Her presentation covers the quintantal chapter in the training manual."
• "In basketball, the quintantal point often triggers a mandatory media timeout."
• "Adjust the quintantal parameter to align with the fifteen-minute sampling interval."
• "The project's quintantal milestone represents the completion of three five-phase cycles."
• "The congregation is scheduled for the quintantal minute mark of the hour."
• "Her presentation covers the quintantal chapter in the training manual."
• "In basketball, the quintantal point often triggers a mandatory media timeout."
• "Adjust the quintantal parameter to align with the fifteen-minute sampling interval."
• "The project's quintantal milestone represents the completion of three five-phase cycles."
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