Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Fourth in order after the sixtieth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Constituting or being one of sixty-four equal parts into which a thing is divided.
- adjective (Mus.) the sixty-fourth part of a whole note; a hemi-demi-semiquaver.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun ordinal The
ordinal form of thenumber sixty-four , describing a person or thing in position number 64 of a sequence. - noun fractional One of
sixty-four equal parts of a whole.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one part in sixty-four equal parts
- adjective the ordinal number of sixty-four in counting order
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Examples
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The very next day was the sixty-fourth anniversary of the February 13, 1945, firebombing during which Allied aircraft destroyed the previously untouched city, considered by many to be the most beautiful in Europe, the baroque “Florence on the Elbe.”
The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010
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By way of contrast, I published my first short story in 2000—the one I sold earlier this week will be my sixty-fourth.
Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2010
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By 1903 Ford had achieved a tolerance of only one sixty-fourth.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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By 1903 Ford had achieved a tolerance of only one sixty-fourth.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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By 1903 Ford had achieved a tolerance of only one sixty-fourth.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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And just in case the rest of the world was under the impression that Libya had quietly joined the modern global community, Gadhafi managed to dispel those notions once and for all in September 2009 at the sixty-fourth session of the UN General Assembly.
The Shadow Market Eric J.Weiner 2010
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After one unsuccessful season on the U.S. Tour, Jones tasted some success playing in Japan, enough to have squeezed into the Match Play field in the sixty-fourth and final spot.
Unplayable Robert Lusetich 2010
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And in the months before and after Fischer's death -- in his own sixty-fourth year -- Robert's health, like Fischer's, began to decline precipitously, and as it did, the rage he had previously vented on hospital workers, he now poured forth on the staff and residents of his group home.
Jay Neugeboren: Searching for Bobby Fischer... and Bobby Neugeboren 2009
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NXT's flat-panel technology can pump big sound from speakers just one sixty-fourth of an inch thick.
Wafer-Thin Speakers 2008
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Appellate courts decided dozens of issues like that of “the validity of a sewer assessment under the sixty-fourth section of the charter of the city of Bayonne New Jersey.”
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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