twenty
has definitions from the field of mathematics
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[ adjective ] denoting a quantity consisting of 20 items or units
Used in print (Edwin L. Bigelow and Nancy H. Otis,...)New_Yorkers were kept informed of scores by reporters who telegraphed fifteen to twenty thousand words daily to the metropolitan newspapers . (Robert A. Futterman, The Future of Our Cities....)The drive along Massachusetts ' Route_128 , the by-pass which makes an arc about twenty miles from downtown Boston , may be a vision of the future . (Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy....)Here he sketched , sitting in their flowing gowns of linen and silk , young_girls not_yet twenty , some about to be married , some married a year or two . (Guy Bolton, The Olympians....)The same month that Alastor was published , Murray sold twenty thousand copies of The_Siege_of_Corinth , a slovenly bit of Byronism that even Shelley 's generosity rebelled at . (John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)Twenty years ago , she would have been known as a golf_widow , and the sum of her manner was perhaps one of bereavement . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (mathematics) the cardinal number that is the sum of nineteen and one
Used in print (Howard Fast, April Morning....)The gunfire , which was so near that it seemed just a piece up the road now , stopped for long enough to count to twenty ; and in that brief interval , a redcoat officer came tearing down the road , whipping his horse fit to kill . Related terms |
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