Nineteenth
['naɪn'tiːnθ] or ['naɪn'tinθ]
Definition
(noun.) position 19 in a countable series of things.
(adj.) coming next after the eighteenth in position .
Typist: Vance--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Following the eighteenth and preceding the twentieth; coming after eighteen others.
(a.) Constituting or being one of nineteen equal parts into which anything is divided.
(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by nineteen; one of nineteen equal parts of anything.
(n.) The next in order after the eighteenth.
(n.) An interval of two octaves and a fifth.
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Examples
- In agriculture the raising of grain has extended in the Nineteenth Century to enormous proportions. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Among the important and interesting achievements of chemistry in the Nineteenth Century is the _artificial production of organic compounds_. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Whatever women may be, I thought that men, in the nineteenth century, were above superstition. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- His Art and its Defects Lasted until Nineteenth Century. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- As allied branches of the photographic art, photo-engraving, photo-lithographing, and half-tone engraving are important developments of the Nineteenth Century. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Shortly after the discovery of yeast in the nineteenth century, man commenced his attempt to cultivate the tiny organisms. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- For converting the grain into flour, the inventors of the Nineteenth Century have made revolutionary changes. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The nineteenth century produced a revolution. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- In the later nineteenth century, this type of idealism was amalgamated with the doctrine of biological evolution. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The Door to Nineteenth Century Inventions then Opened. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Of course stoves, generically speaking, are not a production of the nineteenth century. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The foregoing examples of ice machines give no idea of the great activity in this field of refrigeration in the Nineteenth Century. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The centrifugal pump, invented by Euler in 1754, was taken up in the nineteenth century and greatly improved. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Those which belong to the credit of the Nineteenth Century are given in the table following, with the name of the discoverer, and the date of its discovery. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The principal improvements in the art of glass-making effected during the nineteenth century may be summarised as follows: First, Materials. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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