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- noun Plural form of
twelfth .
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Examples
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As the share of Charles falls in through his death, we have merely to divide the whole hundred acres between Alfred and Benjamin in the proportion of one-third to one-fourth -- that is in the proportion of four-twelfths to three-twelfths, which is the same as four to three.
Amusements in Mathematics Henry Ernest Dudeney 1893
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Using lightly greased kitchen shears or a lightly greased, large sharp knife, cut the slab crosswise into twelfths and lengthwise unto eighths to form generous 1-inch marshmallows.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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Using lightly greased kitchen shears or a lightly greased, large sharp knife, cut the slab crosswise into twelfths and lengthwise unto eighths to form generous 1-inch marshmallows.
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It was hard to fathom that one-year-olds were so different from two-year-olds that, instead of just rounding up or down, every year had to be divided into twelfths.
With Love and Laughter, John Ritter Amy Yasbeck 2010
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Offspring Semi and her family, Mister Semi and little LTB, aged three and eleven/twelfths came down the interstate to the Fairegarden for some family fun.
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The capital stock of the company was divided in 1621, with seven twelfths for the Compagnie de Caën and five twelfths for members of the old Compagnie of Rouen and Saint-Malo.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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The capital stock of the company was divided in 1621, with seven twelfths for the Compagnie de Caën and five twelfths for members of the old Compagnie of Rouen and Saint-Malo.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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The British fineness standard remained eleven-twelfths 91.67% gold.
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The Spanish adopted the eleven-twelfths fine 91.67% standard for gold coins in 1536.
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From these reservoirs the water was distributed to the public through routes more or less circuitous and left the cisterns through pipes, the diameter of which was reckoned in either twelfths or sixteenths of a Roman foot.
Satyricon 2007
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