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vigesimals

vigesimals is the plural of vigesimal.

Meaning of vigesimal

Noun

vigesimal (plural vigesimals)

  1. A twentieth part.
    • If the years of the incomplete century be divided into twenties, and the excess of twenties resolved into fours, the Dominical Letter will advance three places for every twenty, two places for every four, and six places for every unit of the still outstanding remainder. Hence the Sunday Letter will...1872, Frederick A[ugustus] P[orter] Barnard, How to Find the Church Festivals without Tables; Being a Letter Addressed to the Chairman of the Committee of the Prayer Book in the House of Clerical and...

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Questions about vigesimals

What is vigesimals the plural of?
Vigesimals is the plural of vigesimal.

Words near vigesimals in the dictionary

  1. Vigenère cipher
  2. Vigenère ciphers
  3. Viger
  4. vigesimal
  5. vigesimally
  6. vigesimals
  7. vigesimation
  8. vigesimo-quarto
  9. vigezzite
  10. vigger
  11. viggerish

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