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twenty-three
has definitions from the field of mathematics
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[ adjective ] being three more than twenty
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 |
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[ noun ] (mathematics) the cardinal number that is the sum of twenty-two and one
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 . Related terms |
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