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  • noun Plural form of eleventh.

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Examples

  • He gave me the music, and I saw that the chords were all things a six-fingered jazz player would have trouble reaching -- flatted-minor-seventh augmented this, and hinge-barred diminished-elevenths that, and that no way on Earth could I begin to do it, only, in the dream, I said, "Sure, no problem."

    Milestone Steve Perry 2007

  • When, after a month of labor, as many as nine-elevenths of the cast were often present at a rehearsal; when most of them had learned their parts and some of them spoke like human beings, Carol had a new shock in the realization that Guy Pollock and herself were very bad actors, and that Raymie Wutherspoon was a surprisingly good one.

    Main Street 2004

  • Dig the augmented elevenths that keyboard's layin' down.

    I'm back at work on the book! Here's proof! shunn 2001

  • Dig the augmented elevenths that keyboard's layin' down.

    I'm back at work on the book! Here's proof! shunn 2001

  • Per cu.yd. Ten-elevenths cu.yd. pebbles at $1.085 $0.9864

    Concrete Construction Methods and Costs Halbert Powers Gillette

  • He took my place and giving the proper signal, the team or rather ten-elevenths of the team went through with the play, leaving Mac behind standing in his tracks.

    Football Days Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball William Hanford Edwards

  • According to directions, one stick was laid across the other at a point two-elevenths of its length from the top.

    The Scientific American Boy The Camp at Willow Clump Island A. Russell Bond

  • In Athens, the shadow is equal to three fourths of the length of the gnomon; at Rhodes to five sevenths; at Tarentum, to nine elevenths; at Alexandria, to three fifths; and so at other places it is found that the shadows of equinoctial gnomons are naturally different from one another.

    The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio

  • Two-elevenths of 5 feet is a little less than 11 inches, and so we fastened on the cross stick 11 inches from the upper end of the backbone.

    The Scientific American Boy The Camp at Willow Clump Island A. Russell Bond

  • Under this supposition, one tenth of the population secures ten elevenths of the positions for which a higher education is required.

    Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement William English Walling

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