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has definitions from the field of mathematics
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[ adjective ] being one more than sixteen
Used in print (The Dallas Morning News,...)Daniel termed `` extremely conservative '' his estimate that it would produce 17 million dollars to help erase an anticipated deficit of 63 million dollars at the end of the current fiscal_year next Aug. 31 . (The Dallas Morning News,...)The Texans won the game through ball control , with Quarterback Cotton_Davidson throwing only 17 passes . (Richard F. McLaughlin, et al., "A study of the...)This vessel could be followed to the parenchyma where it directly provided bronchial arterial blood to the alveolar capillary_bed ( figs. 17 , 18 ) . Also three other direct pathways of alveolar bronchial arterial supply were noted : via the pleura ; through the interlobular septa ; and along the terminal bronchiole ( figs. 14 , 17 , 18 , 19 ) . (S. Idell Pyle, et al., Onsets, Completions, and...)For_example , arrow 17 in Figure 3 portrays the proximal radial epiphysis for boy 34 , whereas the same epiphysis for girl 2 is portrayed by arrow 18 in Figure 4 . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (mathematics) the cardinal number that is the sum of sixteen and one
Used in print (A.L. Kroeber, "Semantic Contribution of Lexicostatistic...)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 . Related terms |
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