(n.) That which admits of being counted or reckoned; a unit, or an aggregate of units; a numerable aggregate or collection of individuals; an assemblage made up of distinct things expressible by figures.
(n.) A collection of many individuals; a numerous assemblage; a multitude; many.
(n.) A numeral; a word or character denoting a number; as, to put a number on a door.
(n.) Numerousness; multitude.
(n.) The state or quality of being numerable or countable.
(n.) Quantity, regarded as made up of an aggregate of separate things.
(n.) That which is regulated by count; poetic measure, as divisions of time or number of syllables; hence, poetry, verse; -- chiefly used in the plural.
(n.) The distinction of objects, as one, or more than one (in some languages, as one, or two, or more than two), expressed (usually) by a difference in the form of a word; thus, the singular number and the plural number are the names of the forms of a word indicating the objects denoted or referred to by the word as one, or as more than one.
(n.) The measure of the relation between quantities or things of the same kind; that abstract species of quantity which is capable of being expressed by figures; numerical value.
(n.) To count; to reckon; to ascertain the units of; to enumerate.
(n.) To reckon as one of a collection or multitude.
(n.) To give or apply a number or numbers to; to assign the place of in a series by order of number; to designate the place of by a number or numeral; as, to number the houses in a street, or the apartments in a building.
(n.) To amount; to equal in number; to contain; to consist of; as, the army numbers fifty thousand.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, as other patients who lived at the periphery of the Valserine valley do not appear to be related to any patients living in the valley, and because there has been considerable immigration into the valley, a number of hypotheses to explain the distribution of the disease in the region remain possible.
(2) These included bringing in the A* grade, reducing the number of modules from six to four, and a greater attempt to assess the whole course at the end.
(3) When micF was cloned into a high-copy-number plasmid it repressed ompF gene expression, whereas when cloned into a low-copy-number plasmid it did not.
(4) Use of the improved operative technique contributed to reduction in number of complications.
(5) Nutritionally rehabilitated animals had similar numbers of nucleoli to control rats.
(6) Simplicity, high capacity, low cost and label stability, combined with relatively high clinical sensitivity make the method suitable for cost effective screening of large numbers of samples.
(7) The hemodynamic efficiency of the drive was tested in a number of in vivo experiments.
(8) The final number of fibers--140,000-165,000--is reached by the sixth week after birth.
(9) On removal of selective pressure, the His+ phenotype was lost more readily than the Ura+ Trp+ markers, with a corresponding decrease in plasmid copy number.
(10) This article describes a number of syndromes affecting the nail unit.
(11) At the time, with a regular supply of British immigrants arriving in large numbers in Australia, Biggs was able to blend in well as "Terry Cook", a carpenter, so well in fact that his wife, Charmian, was able to join him with his three sons.
(12) Since 1979 there has been an increase of 17,122 in the number of beds available in nursing homes.
(13) Other haematological parameters remained normal, with the exception of the absolute number of lymphocytes, which initially fell sharply but soon returned to, and even exceeded, control levels.
(14) All the twins were born in years 1973-1987, the total number was 2,226 boys and 2,302 girls.
(15) The number of neoplastic cells in each cell suspension was determined by cytologic criteria.
(16) aeruginosa and Enterococci) were significantly reduced in number during the manipulation (Fig.
(17) Because of the small number of patients reported in the world literature and lack of controlled studies, the treatment of small cell carcinoma of the larynx remains controversial; this retrospective analysis suggests that combination chemotherapy plus radiation offers the best chance for cure.
(18) Further, at the end of treatment fewer patients had depressive symptoms and the total daily number of hours of wellbeing and normal movement increased.
(19) The country has no offshore wind farms, though a number of projects are in the research phase to determine their profitability.
(20) Despite a 10-year deadline to have the same number of ethnic minority officers in the ranks as in the populations they serve, the target was missed and police are thousands of officers short.
Twelfth
Definition:
(a.) Next in order after the eleventh; coming after eleven others; -- the ordinal of twelve.
(a.) Consisting, or being one of, twelve equal parts into which anything is divided.
(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by twelve; one of twelve equal parts of one whole.
(n.) The next in order after the eleventh.
(n.) An interval comprising an octave and a fifth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Subtle cognitive deficits in Inferential Reading Comprehension were detected when Reading Vocabulary was at or better than a twelfth grade level.
(2) The phospholipid which accumulated between the sixth and twelfth culture days was composed of 21--27% disaturated phosphatidylcholines.
(3) Serum PRL was relatively unchanged in the control animals from the fourth through the twelfth weeks of the study.
(4) Eleven involved the left hemidiaphragm, and the twelfth the right.
(5) Administration of dihydrotestosterone led to inhibition of xenograft growth at the ninth passage compared with untreated controls (P less than 0.05), but had no effect on xenograft growth at the tenth and twelfth passages when androgen receptors were absent.
(6) Otocysts of twelfth and thirteenth gestation day mouse embryos were grown in organ culture for 9 and 8 days respectively.
(7) The preparation of convenience soups takes only between one fifth and one eighth of the necessary time for the preparation of conventionally, of sauces only between one sixth and one twelfth of the required time.
(8) When the target mRNA encodes the activated c-Ha-ras differing by a single nucleotide at the twelfth amino acid codon from normal c-Ha-ras, the magnitude of the inhibitory effect of Ras I increased significantly because Ras I is now perfectly complementary to its target mRNA.
(9) The ninth and twelfth grade records reveal that those who had previously been identified as showing behavior related to attention deficit disorder later performed significantly more poorly in school and had poorer social adjustment.
(10) Neoplastic foci of mixed hepatocytes and cholangiocytes increased in livers of exposed guppies from the second month, developing into hepatoblastomas, which occurred in almost 100% of exposed guppies by the twelfth month.
(11) Three-year panel data collected from seventh- to twelfth-grade adolescents were analyzed using differences in means tests and discriminant analysis.
(12) One million came by sea last year, a twelfth of those displaced after 1945.
(13) The clinical course from this exposure included papilledema from the third to the sixth month and depressed visual evoked response accompanied by delta activity in the electroencephalogram from the sixth to the twelfth month.
(14) Despite normal peripheral nerve conduction along the tibial nerve, the mean latency of the spinal cord potential of the twelfth thoracic vertebra was increased compared with normal, possibly indicating an incipient conduction defect at or near the spinal root ganglion or lumbar spinal cord.
(15) Only a few solitary neurinomas of the twelfth cranial nerve have been reported.
(16) A patient with endocarditis produced by Listeria monocytogenes is presented, the twelfth such case reported.
(17) The animals were slaughtered between the seventh and twelfth days after Sui, and the following ovulation percentages were established: 100 per cent in the first group, 83.3 per cent in the second, 55.6 per cent in the third, and 72.2 per cent in the fourth.
(18) Nonspecific airway responsiveness to eucapneic hyperventilation with subfreezing air was measured on at least two occasions between the sixth and twelfth annual surveys.
(19) Twelfth months later the control-angiocardiography showed the total obliteration of the ductal aneurysm.
(20) The veteran journalist, currently the executive editor of PBS Newshour, may have been hosting his twelfth such debate but he faced a blistering level of criticism for his performance.