Seventeenth
[,sevən'tiːnθ] or [,sɛvn'tinθ]
Definition
(noun.) position 17 in a countable series of things.
(adj.) coming next after the sixteenth in position .
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Definition
(a.) Next in order after the sixteenth; coming after sixteen others.
(a.) Constituting or being one of seventeen equal parts into which anything is divided.
(n.) The next in order after the sixteenth; one coming after sixteen others.
(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by seventeen; one of seventeen equal parts or divisions of one whole.
(n.) An interval of two octaves and a third.
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Examples
- Along this road they retreated on the next day, and here was the bank at which the regiment bivouacked under the rain of the night of the seventeenth. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But before coming to that, we have to note the theory of experience and knowledge developed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Motor Engines not Produced until Seventeenth Century. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It was early in the seventeenth century that Napier, a native of Naples, invented the first actual mechanical means of calculating. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Similar single machines were in the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries devised in Austria and England. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- On the seventeenth, to all appearance, the cloud passed away again. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Repeating watches to strike the hours, half-hours and quarters, made their appearance in the seventeenth century. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It was invented about the beginning of the seventeenth century and is described by Zanon in his _Work on Agriculture_ printed at Venice in 1764. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The seventeenth century in Europe was the century of Louis XIV; he and French ascendancy and Versailles are the central motif of the story. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Coming down to the seventeenth century, we are told of the great Bijapur cast-iron gun, the Lord of the Plain, cast by the Mogul emperor Auremgzebe or by his foes the Mahrattas. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries the annual death rate from smallpox in London ranged from 2 to 4 per 1,000 of population. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The old flint-lock was quite a modern invention, not appearing until the seventeenth century. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Became a Science in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- In the seventeenth century, the store was still small enough so that men set up the ideal of a complete encyclopedic mastery of it. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- However, there is no doubt that by the latter part of the seventeenth century the game was universally played in the United States. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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