98

 Dictionary entry overview: What does 98 mean? 

• 98 (adjective)
  The adjective 98 has 1 sense:

1. being eight more than ninety

  Familiarity information: 98 used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• 98 (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being eight more than ninety

Synonyms:

98; ninety-eight; xcviii

Similar:

cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)

 Context examples 

Most bacteria and viruses that cause infections do well at the body's normal temperature (98.6 F).

(Fever, NIH)

MG 98 is a highly specific inhibitor of translation of the mRNA for human DNA (cytosine-5-)-methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1), hybridizing to the 3' un-translated region of DNMT1 mRNA.

(MG 98, NCI Thesaurus)

An increase in body temperature above normal (98.6 degrees F), usually caused by disease.

(Fever, NCI Dictionary)

Fanconi anemia group B protein (859 aa, ~98 kDa) is encoded by the human FANCB gene.

(Fanconi Anemia Group B Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

Dynamin-2 (870 aa, ~98 kDa) is encoded by the human DNM2 gene.

(Dynamin-2, NCI Thesaurus)

Human ETV1 wild-type allele is located in the vicinity of 7p21.3 and is approximately 98 kb in length.

(ETV1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

The human MIR138-1 wild-type allele is located in the vicinity of 3p21.33 and is approximately 98 bases in length.

(MIR138-1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Human MIR146 wild-type allele is located in the vicinity of 5q33.3 and is 98 bases in length.

(MIR146A wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Human PDE2A wild-type allele is located in the vicinity of 11q13.4 and is approximately 98 kb in length.

(PDE2A wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

He had served, as he was proud to say, in the last of our ships which had been chased out of the Mediterranean in ’97, and in the first which had re-entered it in ’98.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)