sixty-fourth
Americanadjective
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next after the sixty-third; being the ordinal number for 64.
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being one of 64 equal parts.
noun
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a sixty-fourth part, especially of one (1/64).
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the sixty-fourth member of a series.
Example Sentences
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The pattern continues with eighth notes, sixteenth notes, thirty-second notes, sixty-fourth notes, and so on, each type of note being half the length of the previous type.
From Literature
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But they couldn't resist dropping a delicious, last detail: "The U.S. presidential race was essentially in chaos. And October 7 was Vladimir Putin's sixty-fourth birthday."
From Los Angeles Times
Then, “Cicero stretched forth his neck from the litter and was slain, being then in his sixty-fourth year.”
From Washington Post
It was the sixty-fourth game of the year and the Warriors had lost a total of six times.
From The New Yorker
Lexi is also one sixty-fourth Choctaw, and last week she became the latest flash point in a long-running dispute over child welfare and Native American tribal identity.
From Time
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