15TH

 Dictionary entry overview: What does 15th mean? 

• 15TH (adjective)
  The adjective 15TH has 1 sense:

1. coming next after the fourteenth and just before the sixteenth in position

  Familiarity information: 15TH used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• 15TH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coming next after the fourteenth and just before the sixteenth in position

Synonyms:

15th; fifteenth

Similar:

ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)

 Context examples 

Polyunsaturated fatty acid with 22 carbons and 6 double bonds at the 3rd, 6th, 9th, 12th, 15th and 18th carbons from the methyl end.

(Doconexent, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

A polyunsaturated very long-chain fatty acid with a 22-carbon backbone and 6 double bonds, originating from the 3rd, 6th, 9th, 12th, 15th and 18th positions from the methyl end.

(Doconexent, NCI Thesaurus)

Hunsford, near Westerham, Kent, 15th October.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Polyunsaturated fatty acid with 22 carbons and 5 double bonds at the 6th, 9th, 12th, 15th and 18th carbons from the methyl end.

(Docosapentaenoic Acid n-6, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

A polyunsaturated long-chain fatty acid with a 20-carbon backbone and 4 double bonds, originating from the 3rd, 6th, 9th and either the 12th or 15th positions from the methyl end.

(Eicosatetraenoic Acid n-3, NCI Thesaurus)

Polyunsaturated fatty acid with 22 carbons and 5 double bonds at the 3rd, 6th, 9th, 12th, and 15th carbon from the methyl end.

(Clupanodonic Acid, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

A polyunsaturated very long-chain fatty acid with a 22-carbon backbone and 5 double bonds, originating from the 6th, 9th, 12th, 15th and 18th positions from the methyl end.

(Docosapentaenoic Acid n-6, NCI Thesaurus)

By the end of the 15th century, however, the Norse of Greenland had vanished – leaving only abandoned ruins and an enduring mystery.

(Lost Norse of Greenland fuelled the medieval ivory trade, ancient walrus DNA suggests, University of Cambridge)

To be opened at Manaos upon July 15th, at 12 o'clock precisely.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Polyunsaturated fatty acid with 20 carbons and 4 double bonds at the 6th, 9th, 12th and 15th carbons from the methyl end.

(Arachidonic Acid, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)