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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Maynard’s second husband, Jim Barringer, died of cancer in the small hours of a June morning, just days after his sixty-fourth birthday, as she lay with him in their bed.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2019
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 ● Apr. 6, 2018
Sections of the falcon’s eye are used to represent fractions: one-half, one-quarter and so on, up to one sixty-fourth.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2010
The merchant banker's prime asset is his experience in sizing up situations, measuring men and calculating risks down to one sixty-fourth of 1 %.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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