(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.
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Definition:
(a.) Twentieth; divided into, or consisting of, twenties or twenty parts.