TWELFTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does twelfth mean? 

• TWELFTH (noun)
  The noun TWELFTH has 2 senses:

1. position 12 in a countable series of things

2. one part in twelve equal parts

  Familiarity information: TWELFTH used as a noun is rare.

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

1. coming next after the eleventh and just before the thirteenth in position

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TWELFTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Position 12 in a countable series of things

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("twelfth" is a kind of...):

rank (relative status)

Sense 2

Meaning:

One part in twelve equal parts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

duodecimal; one-twelfth; twelfth; twelfth part

Hypernyms ("twelfth" is a kind of...):

common fraction; simple fraction (the quotient of two integers)

• TWELFTH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coming next after the eleventh and just before the thirteenth in position

Synonyms:

12th; twelfth

Similar:

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

 Context examples 

The twelfth house is the last house of the horoscope (before coming to the first house of your personality).

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The designation for each member of the twelfth largest human autosomal chromosome pair.

(Chromosome 12, NCI Thesaurus)

A vein that extends along the bottom of the twelfth rib on the left side of the body.

(Left Subcostal Vein, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of measurement equal to 10 to the twelfth power of the number of entities per unit of volume equal to one liter.

(Million per Microliter, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A hole in the base of the chest formed by the twelfth vertebrae, tenth and twelfth ribs, costal arch and the xiphoid process through which arteries, veins and nerves pass.

(Lower Opening of the Thorax, NCI Thesaurus)

Given at our palace at Belfaborac, the twelfth day of the ninety-first moon of our reign.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

A disorder characterized by involvement of the hypoglossal nerve (twelfth cranial nerve).

(Hypoglossal Nerve Disorder, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

A non-neoplastic or neoplastic disorder affecting the hypoglossal nerve (twelfth cranial nerve).

(Hypoglossal Nerve Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

The twelfth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.

(December, NCI Thesaurus)

A large thin muscle beneath the external oblique that stretches from the iliac crest to the inferior borders of the tenth to twelfth ribs and the abdominal midline which act to bend the upper trunk forward.

(Internal Oblique Muscle, NCI Thesaurus)