twentieth
next after the nineteenth; being the ordinal number for 20.
being one of 20 equal parts.
a twentieth part, especially of one (1/20).
the twentieth member of a series.
Origin of twentieth
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How to use twentieth in a sentence
It’s figuring out how to do all this, and choosing the exact route through the track and around those obstacles, while recalculating the path it wants to take each twentieth of a second.
This autonomous Toyota race car can drift like a pro | Rob Verger | February 3, 2022 | Popular-ScienceFor example, a high-contrast signal will arrive a twentieth of a second faster than a low-contrast signal.
Want art you can’t look away from? These 5 visual illusions will entrance your mind | Corinne Iozzio | July 21, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThe second lesson is that no one writing before the twentieth century holds a key to our problems.
American Democracy Under Threat for 250 Years | Jedediah Purdy | December 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhatever the true figure, it was a massacre of twentieth-century proportions.
In Threatening Baghdad, Militants Seek to Undo 800 Years of History | Justin Marozzi | August 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFoxFaith, established in 2006 by twentieth Century-Fox, flew under the radar for awhile, and died a quick death.
Beside the fact that they are two of the greatest draughtsmen of the twentieth century.
In 1975, Rüdiger Heim, approaching his twentieth birthday, decided that he had to see his father again.
Hunting Down Aribert Heim, Egypt’s Hidden Nazi | Nicholas Kulish, Souad Mekhennet | March 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHereditary legislation in the twentieth century and the most civilized country in the world!
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonThe payment for this drainage was to be one-twentieth part of the ore raised by the different mines.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2) | Francis TrevithickWhen the men landed upon the moon in the twentieth century, they did not find it at first.
Old Friends Are the Best | Jack SharkeyIt is an old, straggling place that seems to be little in harmony with the progress of the twentieth Century.
British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car | Thomas D. MurphyAnd in the four and twentieth day of the first month, I was by the great river, which is the Tigris.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | Various
British Dictionary definitions for twentieth
/ (ˈtwɛntɪɪθ) /
(usually prenominal)
coming after the nineteenth in numbering or counting order, position, time, etc; being the ordinal number of twenty: often written 20th
(as noun): he left on the twentieth
one of 20 approximately equal parts of something
(as modifier): a twentieth part
the fraction that is equal to one divided by 20 (1/20)
Origin of twentieth
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