Thirtieth
['θɜːtɪɪθ] or ['θɝtɪɪθ]
Definition
(noun.) position 30 in a countable series of things.
(adj.) coming next after the twenty-ninth in position .
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Definition
(a.) Next in order after the twenty-ninth; the tenth after the twentieth; -- the ordinal of thirty; as, the thirtieth day of the month.
(a.) Constituting or being one of thirty equal parts into which anything is divided.
(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by thirty; one of thirty equal parts.
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Examples
- In 1724, it was raised to the thirtieth penny, or to three and a third per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Everybody was sent scampering to the deck at seven o'clock this lovely morning of the thirtieth of June with the glad news that land was in sight! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Below this note there was a line added, in another handwriting, as follows: Extending from the first of January, 1800, to the thirtieth of June, 1815. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- In fact, mercury is 30 times as easy to heat as water, and it requires only one thirtieth as much fire to heat a given quantity of mercury 1° as to heat the same quantity of water 1°. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It has been computed by different authors at a fifth, at a tenth, at a twentieth, and at a thirtieth, part of that value. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- This tenth part, however, is estimated so very moderately, that, in many provinces, it is said not to exceed a thirtieth part of the ordinary produce. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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