Nine vs Twelve - What's the difference?
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(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.
The cardinal number occurring after eleven and before thirteen, represented in Arabic numerals as 12 and in Roman numerals as XII.
A group of twelve items.
A twelve-bore gun.
* 1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 880:
(legal) (colloquial) A jury (normally composed of twelve persons).
As a verb nine
is they are.As a numeral twelve is
the cardinal number occurring after eleven and before thirteen, represented in arabic numerals as 12 and in roman numerals as xii.As a noun twelve is
a group of twelve items.nine
English
(wikipedia nine)Numeral
(head)- A cat has nine lives.
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*Noun
(en noun)- They guaranteed that our Web site would have 99.99% uptime, or four nines .
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* (Roman numerals): (l)Coordinate terms
* Previous : eight () * Next : ten ()Derived terms
* cloud nine * dressed to the nines * on cloud nine * the whole nine yardsSee also
*twelve
English
(wikipedia twelve)Alternative forms
* Arabic numerals: * Roman numerals: XIINumeral
(head)- There are twelve months in a year.
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* Last: eleven. Next: thirteenNoun
(en noun)- Fractions would be a little easier if we counted by twelves .
- In this way Von Esslin ‘inherited’ two fine hammerless twelves which he used once or twice for duck on the Camargue.