twelve-inch
Americannoun
noun
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Twelve-inch pizzas $19.50, 14-inch $27.50, 18-inch $36.50.
From Washington Post
Twelve-inch suppliers are not that scarce, but the challenge is when you shift a chipset from being manufactured by eight-inch to 12-inch, you have to go through a lot of qualification processes, almost reverifying that product again.
From The Verge
The brothers would listen to new twelve-inch jungle records together, and Bevan would imagine what it was like to experience these sounds in their native environment.
From The New Yorker
It’s big, roughly seven by nine feet, depicting a scene in an over-the-top teen-age girl’s bedroom from the seventies: twelve-inch TV, princess telephone, chemical colors, with a bedspread in the center.
From The New Yorker
Labels began producing twelve-inch singles that were easier to manipulate and cue than the seven-inch standard.
From The New Yorker
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