(a.) Following the eighteenth and preceding the twentieth; coming after eighteen others.
(a.) Constituting or being one of nineteen equal parts into which anything is divided.
(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by nineteen; one of nineteen equal parts of anything.
(n.) The next in order after the eighteenth.
(n.) An interval of two octaves and a fifth.
Example Sentences:
(1) When reformist industrialist Robert Owen set about creating a new community among the workers in his New Lanark cotton-spinning mills at the turn of the nineteenth century, it was called socialism, not corporate social responsibility.
(2) A review of the literature reveals that the numerous procedures now available to repair the nose had already been devised by the middle of the nineteenth century in Germany and France as well as in England.
(3) The impetus for the creation of an epidemiology of mental illness came from the work of late nineteenth century social scientists concerned with understanding individual and social behavior and applying their findings to social problems.
(4) Held on the nineteenth floor of Broadgate Tower in the city, complete with panoramic views and a stunning sunset, this show delivered a wardrobe of polished separates, slick tailoring and chic dresses.
(5) In the nineteenth century, some natives of Peru noticed circumoral numbness, euphoria and analgesia after chewing the leaves of the Erythroxylen coca bush.
(6) The paper examines two aspects of coitus interruptus as a sexual practice: (1) how, in the age of fertility decline in Western Europe, its meaning was reinterpreted from an earlier theological view that condemned it as licentious to a nineteenth century view that emphasized restraint, and (2) how it was actually experienced by a socially stratified birth-controlling population in rural Sicily, ca 1900-1970.
(7) This paper therefore reviews such data with special reference to nineteenth-century Britain.
(8) But it is equally notable that this was the first instance in the age of powered flight where there was an active collaboration between the scientists and engineers, a rather curious circumstance in view of the fact that the achievement of altitude record-setting balloon flights in the nineteenth century had owed a great deal to an interconnection of aeronauts and scientists' laboratories.
(9) At the end of the nineteenth century a first attempt to establish itself as a discipline together with hygiene failed.
(10) After the nineteenth postoperative week, signs of congestive heart failure appeared, such as high venous pressure, ascites, and enlarged liver although the calf outwardly appeared well.
(11) Corneal transplantation, which began in Dublin early in the nineteenth century, is now widely practised.
(12) Uterine contents were examined on the nineteenth day of pregnancy.
(13) This article seeks to reconstruct and contrast two episodes in the nineteenth century Church.
(14) In many ways the problem of diaphragmatic hernia is as much of an enigma to today's physician-scientist as it was to Bochdalek in the nineteenth century.
(15) Many cases of enteroliths were reported in the nineteenth century but the number greatly decreased in the early twentieth century.
(16) The French population in Louisiana continued to look to France for educational and intellectual leadership well into the nineteenth century, and the findings of the Paris Clinical School had an immediate impact upon Louisiana medicine, leading to a clash between the French-speaking physicians who emphasized moderation and good nursing and the English-speaking practitioners who believed in drastic intervention.
(17) In nineteenth century Australia, concern to reduce a high infant mortality rate prompted discussion of various alternatives in infant feeding practices.
(18) Several oral applications of parathion-methyl (3 ppm) during the sensitive phases of germ formation and growth (fifth to ninth and eleventh to fifteenth or eleventh to nineteenth days from conception) were followed by clear embryotoxic effects, such as retardation and increased resorption.
(19) Nineteenth-century Victorian England embraced science with enthusiasm.
(20) Since the end of the nineteenth century, numerous cases of triorthocresyl phosphate (TOCP) poisoning due to accidental contamination of drink, food or drugs have been reported.
Twentieth
Definition:
(a.) Next in order after the nineteenth; tenth after the tenth; coming after nineteen others; -- the ordinal of twenty.
(a.) Consisting, or being, one of twenty equal parts into which anything is divided.
(n.) The next in order after the nineteen; one coming after nineteen others.
(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by twenty; one of twenty equal parts of one whole.
Example Sentences:
(1) The uptake of DNM:DNA into L1210 cells in vitro was low and, at 1 hr, was about one-twentieth of that from DNM.
(2) During the twentieth century complex medical and social changes have resulted in changing attitudes to and experiences with death.
(3) In particular, the first tetrapeptide had twice the activity of morphine, while the potency of the dipeptides was less than one twentieth that of morphine.
(4) The human rights movement and the community mental health movement have had a major impact on the care and treatment practices of the twentieth century.
(5) Many of the same dentists returned to the capital on November 27, for the most important dental continuing education meeting of the year, the twentieth ADF Conference.
(6) The RIAA's lawsuit was filed on behalf of labels Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and Capitol Records, while the MPAA's lawsuit includes studios Twentieth Century Fox, Disney, Paramount Pictures, Universal, Colombia Pictures and Warner Bros. "When Megaupload.com was shut down in 2012 by U.S. law enforcement, it was by all estimates the largest and most active infringing website targeting creative content in the world," said the MPAA's senior executive vice president and global general counsel Steven Fabrizio, in a statement.
(7) TSC was recognized to be a genetic disease with autosomal dominant inheritance in the early twentieth century.
(8) "21st Century Fox is a name that draws upon the rich creative heritage of Twentieth Century Fox, while also speaking to the innovation and dynamism that must define each of our businesses through the 21st century.
(9) He reviews earlier seasons, identifying paramount issues or activities that dominated the specific eras the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has responded to since the twentieth century began.
(10) Tuberculosis provided Canadian Inuit with a harsh and bitter lesson in how to be sick in the twentieth century.
(11) Twentieth century developments in the theoretical physics have stimulated interest in the nature of mental operations and conceptual transformations, a topic which is currently receiving increased attention in psychology.
(12) Of particular interest in the latter part of the twentieth century is the discovery that serious deficiencies of either copper or zinc in the diet of animals may break down their immune defence mechanisms.
(13) The amount of diiodotyrosine was less than one-twentieth that of the monoiodotyrosine at either tyrosine residue.
(14) Although historically the Marxist paradigm went into eclipse during the early twentieth century, the field has developed rapidly during recent years.
(15) Continuous wave Doppler studies were carried out on both uterine arteries in 71 pregnant women from the twentieth week of gestation onward.
(16) The concentrations of retinol and of beta-carotene were measured in 742 children, including those with xerophthalmia and every twentieth of the remaining children.
(17) AIDS has emerged as one of the foremost infectious disease epidemics of the twentieth century.
(18) Many cases of enteroliths were reported in the nineteenth century but the number greatly decreased in the early twentieth century.
(19) Although the argument for this view is persuasive, it does not explain why the United States has so many more alcoholic writers than other countries, or, why the "epidemic" occurred in the twentieth century.
(20) This study is the first of its kind to suggest that a rich public health tradition existed in east-central Africa before the twentieth century, and that the tradition can be reconstructed historically.