22ND

 Dictionary entry overview: What does 22nd mean? 

• 22ND (adjective)
  The adjective 22ND has 1 sense:

1. coming next after the twenty-first in position

  Familiarity information: 22ND used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• 22ND (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coming next after the twenty-first in position

Synonyms:

22nd; twenty-second

Similar:

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

 Context examples 

Then, during Juno's 22nd science pass, a new, smaller cyclone churned to life and joined the fray.

(NASA's Juno Navigators Enable Jupiter Cyclone Discovery, NASA)

If the second crater, which has a width of over 22 miles, is ultimately confirmed as the result of a meteorite impact, it will be the 22nd largest impact crater found on Earth.

(NASA Finds Possible Second Impact Crater Under Greenland Ice, NASA)

The study found that warmer, more southerly permafrost regions will not become a carbon source until the end of the 22nd century, even though they are thawing now.

(Far Northern Permafrost May Unleash Carbon Within Decades, NASA)

Phytosterol with a double bond at the 22nd carbon and a methyl group at the 24th carbon.

(Brassicasterol, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

‘December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.’

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mrs. Norris was obliged to be satisfied with thinking just the same, and with having been on the point of proposing the 22nd herself, as by far the best day for the purpose.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He said a shaft in the tomb contained mummies belonging to ancient Egyptian people who lived during the 21st and 22nd dynasties.

(Egypt Announces Discovery of 3,500-Year-Old Luxor Tomb, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

It was the 22nd flyby during which the solar-powered spacecraft collected science data on the gas giant, soaring only 2,175 miles (3,500 kilometers) above its cloud tops.

(NASA's Juno Navigators Enable Jupiter Cyclone Discovery, NASA)

Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

William was required to be at Portsmouth on the 24th; the 22nd would therefore be the last day of his visit; but where the days were so few it would be unwise to fix on any earlier.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)