Definitions
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- noun one part in thirty-two equal parts
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Examples
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He knew how to shrink a document down to one-thirty-second of its original size, and how to add toner.
Nineteen Minutes Jodi Picoult 2007
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He knew how to shrink a document down to one-thirty-second of its original size, and how to add toner.
Nineteen Minutes Jodi Picoult 2007
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He knew how to shrink a document down to one-thirty-second of its original size, and how to add toner.
Nineteen Minutes Picoult, Jodi, 1966- 2007
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* 7 And because Grey was one-thirty-second Indian on his mother's side, he perhaps thought himself a brother in the Indian's struggle for recognition.
Zane Grey, Romancing the West May, Stephen J. 1997
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It will come into the world half-Japanese, one-thirty-second Siwash and all thumbs.
Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Robbins, Tom 1976
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Its weight may be called one-thirty-second of a pound to the cubic foot and atmospheric air about three-fourths of a pound.
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It will measure the one-fifty-thousandth part of a degree of heat, and consists of strips of platinum one-thirty-second of an inch wide and one-fourth of an inch long; and so thin that it requires fifty to equal the thickness of tissue paper, placed in the circuit of electricity running to a galvanometer.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 Various
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A battery of 24 cells, each weighing 14 lb., will keep a strip of platinum five-eighths of an inch wide, one-thirty-second of an inch thick, and 9 ft. 10 in. long, red-hot for a long time.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 286, June 25, 1881 Various
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Of the blood that flowed in the veins of Pablo Artelan, thirty-one-thirty-seconds was Indian, but the other one-thirty-second was composed of equal parts of Latin romance and conceit.
The Pride of Palomar 1918
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I got my apparatus down and set up, and then to get a preliminary idea of what the distortion of the signal would be, I sent a single dot, which should have been recorded upon my automatic paper by a mark about one-thirty-second of an inch long.
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