(a.) Next in order after the forty-ninth; -- the ordinal of fifty.
(a.) Consisting of one of fifty equal parts or divisions.
(n.) One of fifty equal parts; the quotient of a unit divided by fifty.
Example Sentences:
(1) Under the dose-equivalent-limitation system, annual ingestion decreases from 451 kBq during the first year to 36 kBq during the fiftieth year.
(2) The Washington School of Psychiatry, the distinguished institution that publishes Psychiatry, is in 1986 celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of its founding by Harry Stack Sullivan and his colleagues.
(3) In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the journal, this paper reviews the development of these models.
(4) CSA also stimulated the clonal growth of AML cells, and the minimum requirement for CSA was one-tenth to one-fiftieth that required to stimulate the growth of normal marrow CFU-C. CSA for AML cells was eluted from Sephacryl S-200 columns in fractions that represented an apparent molecular weight of 45,000 daltons.
(5) The intrasession variation, the left-right variation, and the fifth and fiftieth centile values were calculated.
(6) More direct proof was obtained by purifying the deaminase 185-fold and finding that it released hydroxylamine from 4-N-hydroxy-cytidine at one-fiftieth the rate at which ammonia was removed from cytidine.
(7) Anti-Pseudomonas resistance of the control BMT mice examined on days 7, 9, and 11 following BMT was one fifteenth to one fiftieth of normal mice, as indicated by the LD50 value.
(8) The specificity of the antigen-antibody interaction was high: glycosides in which the tyvelose (3,6-dideoxy-D-arabino-hexose) residue had been replaced by abequose (3,6-dideoxy-D-xylo-hexose) or paratose (3,6-dideoxy-K-ribo-hexose), had less than one fiftieth of the activity of the most active inhibitor in either of the two precipitation systems used.
(9) Permeability of the interstitial space for extracellular solutes is one-thirtieth to one-fiftieth that of an equivalent thickness of water.
(10) Furthermore, we showed that bovine brain capillary endothelial cells retain, up to the fiftieth generation, some of the characteristics of the blood-brain barrier: occurrence of tight junctions, paucity of pinocytotic vesicles, and monoamine oxidase activity.
(11) On the average, over the total age range, the differences between the age equivalents (bone ages) for the fiftieth percentile and chronological age were close to zero in both sexes, indicating good agreement with the British standards.
(12) This together with new technology reduced the legal abortions mortality rate to one-fiftieth over the last 30 years even though the number of legal abortions increased 7-fold.
(13) These cells, absolutely free of pericyte contamination, are subcultured, at the split ratio of 1:20 (20-fold increase of the cultured surface), with no apparent changes in cell morphology up to the fiftieth generation (10 passages).
(14) Annual committed dose equivalent decreases from 3.6 Sv during the first year to 0.3 Sv during the fiftieth year.
(15) Those scoring "low" (less than fiftieth percentile) on the Council on Resident Education test all had scores less than 500 on part 2 of the national board, whereas those scoring "high" on the Council on Resident Education test (greater than ninetieth percentile) scored about 600 or higher on part 2 of the national board.
(16) The specific activity of tritium in pine needles was almost the same as that in the branches and about one fiftieth that in the small roots or soil.
(17) In one, fixed ratio 25, the reinforcer was delivered on the twenty-fifth response; on the other, fixed ratio 50, the fiftieth response was reinforced.
(18) However, in low ionic strength media, physalaemin has about one-fiftieth the potency of SP in competing with [3H]SP.
(19) The second phase begins at the end of the first phase and finishes toward the fortieth or fiftieth day of the mission.
(20) The Hellenic National Graduate Nurses Association presents the participation of the Greek nurses to the titanic effort of the nation to confront -for six months- two great military -then enemy- forces, of Italy and Germany, with inconceivable bravery and heroism, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary from the glorious period of the recent history of our country.
Jubilee
Definition:
(n.) Every fiftieth year, being the year following the completion of each seventh sabbath of years, at which time all the slaves of Hebrew blood were liberated, and all lands which had been alienated during the whole period reverted to their former owners.
(n.) The joyful commemoration held on the fiftieth anniversary of any event; as, the jubilee of Queen Victoria's reign; the jubilee of the American Board of Missions.
(n.) A church solemnity or ceremony celebrated at Rome, at stated intervals, originally of one hundred years, but latterly of twenty-five; a plenary and extraordinary indulgence grated by the sovereign pontiff to the universal church. One invariable condition of granting this indulgence is the confession of sins and receiving of the eucharist.
(n.) A season of general joy.
(n.) A state of joy or exultation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hopes that the Queen's diamond jubilee and the £9bn spent on the Olympics would lift sales over the longer term have largely been dashed as growth slows and the outlook, though robust with a growing order book, remains subdued.
(2) That’s precisely the point made by Jubilee Debt Campaign: the reckless lenders that poured speculative cash into the country in the runup to the crisis escaped largely unscathed (though they were forced to accept some reduction in the face value of their bonds – known as a haircut – in the 2012 restructuring that accompanied Greece’s second emergency bailout).
(3) Entwistle's chances were at one stage thought to have diminished in the wake of the much-criticised BBC coverage of the Diamond Jubilee pageant, which came under his responsibility.
(4) They also say that the planners of the Diamond Jubilee are very interested in their ideas.
(5) "What happened with the river pageant for the diamond jubilee was the result of the BBC's understandable anxiety that it should not come across as an institution more often than it has to.
(6) The mayor is a good person, but no one invited him, certainly not officially … The pope was furious.” While the prank provided fodder to critics of the mayor, it also underscored a more serious issue between the Vatican and Rome just a few months ahead of the church’s jubilee year of mercy, which begins on 8 December.
(7) The appropriately named Monarch pub in Camden, north London, is jumping on the jubilee bandwagon by hosting a free "Monarchy in the UK" music night on bank holiday Monday and will be showing the football during the European championships.
(8) In England, Chelmsford won the laurels awarded in 2012 to mark Queen Elizabeth’s own diamond jubilee.
(9) While Victorians celebrated the empire on which the sun would never set with successive jubilees (golden, 1887, and diamond, 1897), many readers fretted over foreign (increasingly German) threats to the harmony of English life.
(10) The sharp fall is partly due to the extra bank holiday in June (for the Diamond Jubilee), so could be a one-off... ...and as the data isn't as bad as feared, it might suggest that the original estimate that the UK shrank by 0.7% in the last quarter will be revised a little higher.
(11) Petrodollars pumped from the Jubilee oilfields would propel the country into middle-income status if handled wisely over a decade, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicted.
(12) The change follows an approach by Sky News to Buckingham Palace last year and is something of a coup for the broadcaster, which will take the helm over a two-year period which will see two royal weddings, the diamond jubilee and the London Olympic Games.
(13) The Jubilee Debt Campaign said as many as two-thirds of the 43 developing countries it analysed could suffer large increases in the share of government income spent on debt payments over the next decade.
(14) With the extra bank holiday for the Queen's diamond jubilee expected to depress economic output in the second quarter of the year, as workers down tools and fire up their barbecues, analysts believe it will be autumn at the earliest before the UK emerges from recession.
(15) Downing Street has moved swiftly to torpedo a proposal from the education secretary, Michael Gove , that the public should donate a £60m royal yacht to the Queen as part of this year's diamond jubilee celebrations.
(16) Millions of tourists are expected to descend on Rome to participate in the jubilee, but the special event means that the Vatican will largely be relying on Marino and his bureaucracy to make sure it is not a logistical nightmare for visitors.
(17) For the World Bank to demand that this money is paid would be scandalous,” The cancellation of debt payments coming due over the next two to four years is a welcome step Tim Jones, Jubilee Debt Campaign The Jubilee Debt Campaign estimated Guinea would be spared $30.2m of payments between now and September 2019, Liberia $36.4m until November 2018, and Sierra Leone $29.2m until December 2016.
(18) Cotton's interview with Paloma Faith on Tuesday in which the singer plugged her latest recording and mused about royal memorabilia such as a diamond jubilee sick bag has attracted particular criticism.
(19) Mr Cameron quite inappropriately compared these events to the "diamond jubilee celebrations" and stated that their aim will be to stress our "national spirit".
(20) Its phenomenal success has sent shock waves through much of the non-governmental organisation (NGO) sector, as many campaign strategists ponder how Jubilee 2000 pulled off what many regarded as impossible.