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[ adjective ] coming next after the fourteenth and just before the sixteenth in position

Synonyms

15th

Used in print

(St. Louis Post-Dispatch,...)

Yes , we know , they 're professionals , men paid to play , and they should n't care how they 're handled , just as_long_as their names are spelled correctly on the first and fifteenth of each_month .

(J. F. Vedder, "Micrometeorites", in Francis S. J...)

A concentration distribution has been derived from radar observations sensitive to the fifteenth magnitude ( Manning and Eshleman , 1959 ) .

At the fifteenth magnitude , * * f , and at the twenty-fifth magnitude , * * f .

(LeRoy Fothergill, "Biological Warfare", in Peter...)

A rough attempt was made to characterize the vertical profile of the cloud by taking samples from outside the windows on the first , ninth , and fifteenth floors of a Government_office building .

Related terms

ordinal

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[ noun ] position 15 in a countable series of things

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rank

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