one-thirty-second love

one-thirty-second

Definitions

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun one part in thirty-two equal parts

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word one-thirty-second.

Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • * 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

  • It will come into the world half-Japanese, one-thirty-second Siwash and all thumbs.

    Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Robbins, Tom 1976

  • Its weight may be called one-thirty-second of a pound to the cubic foot and atmospheric air about three-fourths of a pound.

    Scientific American, Volume 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. Various

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 1 1910

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.