sixty-first

American  

[siks-tee-furst] / ˈsɪks tiˈfɜrst /

adjective

1. next after the sixtieth; being the ordinal number for 61.

2. being one of 61 equal parts.

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noun

1. a sixty-first part, especially of one (1/61).

2. the sixty-first member of a series.

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sixty-first

Experimenting with elements created by the Manhattan Project, researchers realized that they could create two different versions, or isotopes, of promethium, the sixty-first atom on the periodic table.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 27, 2019

One day about noon, Odorny Nimmer, the sixty-first day of the journey that bland blind nothingness about us began to flow and writhe.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Sir: I have seen the President's order of the 13th of August last, which gives a construction of the sixty-first and sixty-second articles of war relative to rank or command.

From General Scott by Marcus Joseph Wright

This gentleman died, after an illness of a few days continuance, on the 7th of January, 1830, in the sixty-first year of his age.

From The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) by John Knowles

With trepidation she remembered that she was in her sixty-first year, which, as all the world knows, is the last of the yaku doshi, or evil years, after which a woman may be at peace.

From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Lewis Wingfield