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[ adjective ] being one more than fifteen
Used in print (Walter H. Buchsbaum, "Advances in Medical Electronics"...)The travel time of sound in tissue is about 1500 meters per second thus it takes about 16 � msec. to traverse 25 mm. of tissue . (Your Federal Income Tax. 1962 Edition (Revised to...)Your 16 year old son earned $ 720 in 1961 . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (mathematics) the cardinal number that is the sum of fifteen and one
Used in print (A.L. Kroeber, "Semantic Contribution of Lexicostatistic...)The result is that I included 70 animal names , but Swadesh only 4 ; and somewhat similarly for plants , 16 as against 4 . What we have left as reasonably comparable are four classes : ( 1 ) body_parts and products , which with a proportionally nearly even representation ( 51 terms out of 253 , 25 out of 100 ) come_out with nearly even ratios ; 2.6 and 2.7 ; ( 2 ) Nature ( 29 terms against 17 ) , ratios 3.3 versus 4.1 ; ( 3 ) adjectives ( 16 , 15 terms ) , ratios 3.9 versus 4.7 ; ( 4 ) verbs ( 9 , 22 terms ) , ratios 4.0 versus 3.4 . The totals for these five categories are not too uneven , namely 20 , 15 , 11 , 16 , 9 respectively . Related terms |
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