twenty-sevenths
- plural of twenty-seventh.
Example Sentences
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The most important characteristics of the gift are: introduction of diagonal line and triangular form; division into thirds, ninths, and twenty-sevenths; illustration of the inclined plane and cube-root.
From Froebel's Gifts by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith
In the Fifth Gift the child sees three and its multiples; in fractions, halves, quarters, eighths, thirds, ninths, and twenty-sevenths.
From Children's Rights A book of nursery logic by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith
Ye see, every day, the interest is a penny and twenty-six twenty-sevenths of a farthin.
From The Duke of Stockbridge by Bellamy, Edward
