twelve-inch

[twelv-inch]

noun

a phonograph record twelve inches in diameter, especially one with two or more remixes of the same song.

Compare seven-inch.

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Historical Examples of twelve-inch

It was a tiny truck, no more than four feet high and with twelve-inch wheels.
Space Platform
Murray Leinster
The thing screamed in the air, like a shell from a twelve-inch gun.
Wandering Ghosts
F. Marion Crawford
They were not fingerlings, but ten-inch and twelve-inch fellows.
Days in the Open
Lathan A. Crandall
At Bapaume his battalion was hit by fragments of twelve-inch shells.
Now It Can Be Told
Philip Gibbs
The Puritan had the range and sent a twelve-inch shell in reply.
Young Peoples' History of the War with Spain
Prescott Holmes

British Dictionary definitions for twelve-inch

twelve-inch

noun

a gramophone record 12 inches in diameter and played at 45 revolutions per minute, usually containing an extended remix of a single

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