thirty-second

American  

[thur-tee-sek-uhnd] / ˈθɜr tiˈsɛk ənd /

adjective

1. next after the thirty-first; being the ordinal number for 32.

2. being one of 32 equal parts.

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noun

1. a thirty-second part, especially of one (1/32).

2. the thirty-second member of a series.

Example Sentences

“That’s two more owners taking a thirty-second share of media rights in perpetuity.”

From Washington Post • May 5, 2020

The other is to scale back how much time and energy you spend trying to court your unfriendly neighbors and confining yourself to the occasional wave and thirty-second exchange of pleasantries.

From Slate • Nov. 13, 2018

That person will share one eighth of those same variants with a first cousin, one thirty-second with a second cousin, and so on.

From Scientific American • Jul. 2, 2018

In the World Economic Forum’s rankings of women’s economic participation and opportunity, Egypt is a hundred and thirty-second out of a hundred and forty-four countries, behind Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 25, 2016

The white man taking his application gave him the standard literacy tests: “What is the first line of the thirty-second paragraph of the United States Constitution?” he asked.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin