Ninety vs Nine - What's the difference?
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The cardinal number occurring after eighty-nine and before ninety-one, represented in Roman numerals as XC and in Arabic numerals as .
(cardinal) A numerical value equal to ; the number occurring after eight and before ten.
Describing a set or group with nine components.
The digit or figure .
(card games) A playing card with nine pips.
(weaponry) A nine-millimeter semi-automatic pistol.
(computing, engineering, usually in plural) A statistical unit of proportion (of reliability, purity, etc.).
(label) A baseball club, a baseball team (composed of nine players).
* 1877, Chicago Times, July 8, 1877:Peter Morris,
A Game of Inches: The Stories Behind the Innovations That Shaped Baseball, 15.1.3 Rain Checks, *:The St. Louis club is the only nine in the league which gives its patrons the right to see a full game or no pay.
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As a numeral ninety
is the cardinal number occurring after eighty-nine and before ninety-one, represented in roman numerals as xc and in arabic numerals as.As a verb nine is
they are.ninety
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* : 90 * : XCSee also
* Last: eighty-nine, eighty * Next: ninety-one, hundred English cardinal numbersnine
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(wikipedia nine)Numeral
(head)- A cat has nine lives.
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(en noun)- They guaranteed that our Web site would have 99.99% uptime, or four nines .
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