twenty-three has definitions from the field of mathematics
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[ adjective ] being three more than twenty

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23 xxiii

Used in print

(John Harnsberger and Robert P. Wilkins,...)

Seven hundred miles south of York_Factory , at `` the Forks '' of the Red and the Assiniboine , twenty-three men located a settlement in August 1812 .

(Frances and Richard Lockridge, Murder Has...)

At the Hotel_Dumont there had , at the time in_issue , been twenty-three overnighters , counting couples as singular .

Related terms

cardinal

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[ noun ] (mathematics) the cardinal number that is the sum of twenty-two and one

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23 XXIII

Used in print

(Frances and Richard Lockridge, Murder Has...)

The twenty-three ( or twenty-two with the Paynes themselves omitted ) provided merely a place to start , and their identification was the barest of starts .

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large_integer

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