Five dots forming a quincunx

This aes grave coin is a Roman quincunx but the five pellets do not appear in the quincunx arrangement.

A quincunx (IPA ['kwɪnkʌŋks]) is the arrangement of five units in the pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice, playing cards, or dominoes. The quincunx was originally the symbol of the Roman coin of the same name, whose value was five twelfths (quinque + uncia) of an as. Typically, a quincunx consists of five objects arranged in a square, with one object at each of the square's four corners and the fifth in the square's center. If the four corner objects form a rectangle, the pattern is still considered a quincunx. Image File history File links Quincunx. ... Image File history File links Quincunx. ... Aes grave (heavy bronze) is a numismatical term indicating bronze cast coins used in Central Italy during IV and III century BC from Italic populations. ... IPA may refer to: The International Phonetic Alphabet or India Pale Ale ... Two standard six-sided pipped dice with rounded corners. ... Some typical modern playing cards. ... Domino redirects here—for other meanings of the word, see Domino (disambiguation). ... The main Roman currency during most of the Roman Republic and the western half of the Roman Empire consisted of coins including the aureus (gold), the denarius (silver), the sestertius (bronze), the dupondius (bronze), and the as (copper). ... The quincunx was an Ancient Roman bronze coin produced during the Roman Republic. ... The As (plural Asses) was a bronze, and later copper, coin used during the Roman Republic and Roman Empire, named after the homonymous weight unit (12 unciae = ounces), but not immune to weight depreciation. ...

The significance of the quincunx pattern originates in Pythagorean mathematical mysticism. This pattern lies at the heart of the Pythagorean tetraktys, a pyramid of ten dots. To the Pythagoreans the number five held particular significance and the quincunx pattern represented this significance. Pythagoras of Samos (Greek: ; born between 580 and 572 BC, died between 500 and 490 BC) was an Ionian Greek mathematician[1] and founder of the religious movement called Pythagoreanism. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Tetractys, also known as the decad, is a triangular figure consisting of ten points arranged in four rows: one, two, three, and four points in each row. ...

Examples

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Quincunx patterns occur in many contexts:

• A quincunx is a standard pattern for planting an orchard, especially in France.
• Quincunxes are used in modern computer graphics as a supersampling pattern for anti-aliasing. Quincunx antialiasing samples scenes at the corners and centers of each pixel. These five sample points, in the shape of a quincunx, are combined to produce each displayed pixel. However, samples at the corner points are shared with adjacent pixels, so the number of samples needed is only twice the number of displayed pixels. [1]
• In astrology (and less commonly in astronomy), a quincunx (also known as an inconjunct) is an astrological aspect of five-twelfths of a circle, or 150°, between two objects (the Sun, Moon, planets or signs).
• In architecture, a quincuncial plan, also defined as a "cross inscribed in a square", is the plan of an edifice composed of nine bays. The central and the four angular ones are covered with domes or groin vaults; the other four are surmounted by barrel vaults.

The spots on the 5th side of a (playing) die form a quincunx. A community apple orchard originally planted for productive use during the 1920s, in Westcliff on Sea (Essex, England) An orchard is an intentional planting of trees or shrubs maintained for food production. ... This article is about the scientific discipline of computer graphics. ... Supersampling is an antialiasing technique, the process of eliminating jagged and pixelated edges (aliasing). ... In digital signal processing, anti-aliasing is the technique of minimizing the distortion artifacts known as aliasing when representing a high-resolution signal at a lower resolution. ... Hand-coloured version of the anonymous Flammarion woodcut (1888). ... For other uses, see Astronomy (disambiguation). ... The astrological aspects are noted in the central circle of this natal chart, where the different colors and symbols distinguish between the different aspects, such as the square (red) or trine (blue) In astrology, an aspect is the relative angle between two heavenly bodies. ... Sol redirects here. ... This article is about Earths moon. ... This article is about the astronomical term. ... This article is about building architecture. ... For other uses, see Dome (disambiguation). ... Gårdslösa Church, Öland, Sweden A groin vault or groined vault (also sometimes known as a double barrel vault or cross vault) is a vault produced by the intersection at right angles of two barrel vaults. ... Barrel vault In architecture, a barrel vault is an extrusion of a single curve (or pair of curves, in the case of a pointed barrel vault) along a given distance. ... Two standard six-sided pipped dice with rounded corners. ...	The points on each face of a unit cell of a face-centred cubic lattice form a quincunx. Image File history File links Lattice_face_centered_cubic. ... In mineralogy and crystallography, a crystal structure is a unique arrangement of atoms in a crystal. ... The cubic crystal system is a crystal system where the unit cell is in the shape of a cube. ...	A quincuncial map is a conformal map projection that maps the poles of the sphere to the centre and four corners of a square, thus forming a quincunx. A quincuncial map is a conformal map projection that is conformal everywhere except at the corners of the inner hemisphere. ...	A quincunx of linga inside a yoni in Angkor. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2377x1242, 2374 KB) A quincunx of linga inside a yoni, carved into the riverbed at Kbal Spean, Angkor. ... Linga worship (Estate of Cynthia and Harlen Welsh) Lingam or Linga is the Sanskrit word for mark. ... For other uses, see Yoni (disambiguation). ... Map of the Angkor region in Cambodia. ...
Bodrum Mosque in Istanbul, a typical example of building with a quincuncial plan. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... The Mosque viewed from northwest. ... Istanbul (Turkish: , Greek: , historically Byzantium and later Constantinople; see other names) is Turkeys most populous city, and its cultural and financial center. ...	The flag of the Solomon Islands features a quincunx of stars. Image File history File links Flag_of_the_Solomon_Islands. ...

References

• The English physician Sir Thomas Browne in his philosophical discourse The Garden of Cyrus (1658) elaborates upon evidence of the quincunx pattern in art, nature and mystically as 'evidence' of intelligent design.
• The Quincunx (ISBN 0-345-37113-5) is the title of a lengthy and elaborate novel by Charles Palliser set in 19th-century England, published in 1989.
• The Quincunx is the name of the lake with an island containing Mistress Masham's Repose in the novel of that name by T. H. White.
• Lawrence Durrell's novel-sequence The Avignon Quintet is arranged in the form of a quincunx, according to the author. The final novel in the sequence is called Quinx, the plot of which includes the discovery of a quincunx of stones.