fifteen
has definitions from the field of mathematics
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[ adjective ] being one more than fourteen
Used in print ("Editorials"...)Nearly 18 per_cent of West_Berlin 's 2200000 residents are sixty-five or older , only 12.8 per_cent are under fifteen . (LeRoy Fothergill, "Biological Warfare", in Peter...)The biological and physical_properties of infectious particles have been studied intensively during the past fifteen years . (Edwin L. Bigelow and Nancy H. Otis,...)A message of less_than fifteen words to Bennington cost twenty-five cents . New_Yorkers were kept informed of scores by reporters who telegraphed fifteen to twenty thousand words daily to the metropolitan newspapers . (Stephen Longstreet, Eagles Where I Walk....)It was thickly_settled by fifteen thousand citizens and laid_out into pig infested streets , mostly around the Battery , going bravely north to Wall_Street , but giving_up and becoming fields and farms in the region of Harlem_Heights . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (mathematics) the cardinal number that is the sum of fourteen and one
Used in print (Robert L. Duncan, The Voice of Strangers....)`` Fifteen '' , she said . Related terms |
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