4 has definitions from the field of mathematics
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[ adjective ] being one more than three

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four iv

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(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 :

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cardinal

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[ noun ] (mathematics) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one

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(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 .

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digit

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