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[ adjective ] being one more than three
Used in print (Walter H. Buchsbaum, "Advances in Medical Electronics"...)As shown in Fig. 4 , an external antenna is placed over or around the patient and excited 3000 times a second with short 400 - kc. bursts . (Successful Farming, 59:12...)Following single dose treatment , milk should be discarded for 4 days following treatment . (John Harnsberger and Robert P. Wilkins,...)This trade was subject to a tariff of 7.5 per_cent after February 1835 , but much was smuggled into Assiniboia with the result that the duty was reduced by 1841 to 4 per_cent on the initiative of the London committee . (Arlin Turner, "William Faulkner, Southern Novelist"...)If the barn-burner 's family produces a Flem_Snopes , who personifies commercialism and materialism in hyperbolic crassness , the Compson family produces a Jason_Compson 4 , . (Statements 87th Congress, 1st Session. Appropriations,...)Section 4 of the joint_resolution of September 2 , 1958 ( 72 Stat. 1707 ; 42 U._S._C. 1958 ( d ) ) , is hereby amended to read : Related terms |
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[ noun ] (mathematics) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one
Used in print (Jesse W. Grimes and Wesley Allinsmith, "Compuls...)The statistical analyses of achievement in_relation_to anxiety and teaching_methods and the interactions of the two are presented in Tables 3 and 4 . (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 . The result is that I included 70 animal names , but Swadesh only 4 ; and somewhat similarly for plants , 16 as against 4 . It will be seen that where the scope is similar , the Athabascan ratios come_out somewhat higher ( as indeed they ought to with a total ratio of 2.8 as against 3.5 or 4 : 5 ) except for verbs , where alone the Athabascan ratio is lower . For Yokuts , I tabulated these 71 items in five columns , according_as they were expressed by 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , and more_than 4 stems . Related terms |
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