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1900S

 Dictionary entry overview: What does 1900s mean? 

1900S (noun)
  The noun 1900S has 1 sense:

1. the decade from 1900 to 1909play

  Familiarity information: 1900S used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


1900S (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The decade from 1900 to 1909

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("1900s" is a kind of...):

decade; decennary; decennium (a period of 10 years)


 Context examples 


The Indo-Pacific warm pool, a region between the eastern Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean, with ocean temperatures generally warmer than 28 degrees Celsius, has been warming since the 1900s, but during 1981—2018, it expanded at a rate of about 400,000 square kilometres per year — the size of Thailand or Spain, says Roxy Mathew Koll, lead author and climate scientist at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune.

(Global disasters linked to warming Indo-Pacific seas, SciDev.Net)



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