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[ adjective ] being four more than twenty
Synonyms Used in print (The Dallas Morning News,...)Rep._Henry_C._Grover , who teaches history in the Houston public_schools , would reduce from 24 to 12 semester_hours the so-called `` teaching_methods '' courses required to obtain a junior or senior_high_school teaching_certificate . Grover also would require junior senior_high teachers to have at_least 24 semester_hours credit in the subject they are teaching . (St. Louis Post-Dispatch,...)His best years were 1954 when he hit .345 with 41 homers and '55 when he belted 51 home_runs , drove_in 127 and stole 24 bases . (Organic Gardening and Farming,...)It does n't really matter which month of the year you sow them , but they germinate best when they have a wide variation of temperature , very warm followed by cool in the same 24 hours . (Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)Each frame comes between the light and the lens and is individually projected on the screen , at the rate , for silent_movies , of 16 frames per second , and , for sound films , 24 frames per second . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (mathematics) the cardinal number that is the sum of twenty-three and one
Synonyms Used in print (The Family Fallout Shelter. Office of Civil and Defence...)This shelter , as shown on page 24 , would provide almost absolute protection from fallout radiation . (Your Federal Income Tax. 1962 Edition (Revised to...)( See Chapter 24 . ) (A.L. Kroeber, "Semantic Contribution of Lexicostatistic...)The differentiation however is not very_much greater , as shown by the fact that Athabascan shows 3.46 stems per meaning slot as against 2.75 for Yokuts , with a slightly greater number of languages represented in our sample : 24 as against 21 . Related terms |
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