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- noun one part in sixty equal parts
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Examples
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The average email has just one-sixtieth the footprint of a letter, according to a back-of-the-envelope comparison.
What's the carbon footprint of ... email? Mike Berners-Lee 2010
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That's enough for the New York Jewish Week's Ted Merwin to connect the play -- and prior Shulman performances -- with the playwright's hometown of Jerusalem and his service in the Israeli army, as well as the "Talmudic dictum that dreams are one-sixtieth of prophecies."
Menachem Wecker: 'Deathscape': New Play Is Surreal Dreamscape of Religious Themes Menachem Wecker 2011
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That's enough for the New York Jewish Week's Ted Merwin to connect the play -- and prior Shulman performances -- with the playwright's hometown of Jerusalem and his service in the Israeli army, as well as the "Talmudic dictum that dreams are one-sixtieth of prophecies."
Menachem Wecker: 'Deathscape': New Play Is Surreal Dreamscape of Religious Themes Menachem Wecker 2011
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That's enough for the New York Jewish Week's Ted Merwin to connect the play -- and prior Shulman performances -- with the playwright's hometown of Jerusalem and his service in the Israeli army, as well as the "Talmudic dictum that dreams are one-sixtieth of prophecies."
Menachem Wecker: 'Deathscape': New Play Is Surreal Dreamscape of Religious Themes Menachem Wecker 2011
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That's enough for the New York Jewish Week's Ted Merwin to connect the play -- and prior Shulman performances -- with the playwright's hometown of Jerusalem and his service in the Israeli army, as well as the "Talmudic dictum that dreams are one-sixtieth of prophecies."
Menachem Wecker: 'Deathscape': New Play Is Surreal Dreamscape of Religious Themes Menachem Wecker 2011
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That's enough for the New York Jewish Week's Ted Merwin to connect the play -- and prior Shulman performances -- with the playwright's hometown of Jerusalem and his service in the Israeli army, as well as the "Talmudic dictum that dreams are one-sixtieth of prophecies."
Menachem Wecker: 'Deathscape': New Play Is Surreal Dreamscape of Religious Themes Menachem Wecker 2011
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Sensory nonconceptual cognition occurs for only one-sixtieth of a second.
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If my math is right, 60 seconds is one-sixtieth of an hour, right?
Buzzine » New Math 2009
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The room came dramatically to life for one-sixtieth of a second and then faded back into darkness, her eyes blinded by a dissipating red glow.
Camera Obscura 2009
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MaxKohanzad · March 31st, 2007 at 4:19 pm i thought the one-sixtieth rule only applied to accidental addition of treif?
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