Twelve vs Twelveness - What's the difference?
twelve | twelveness |
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).
The property of being twelve in number.
* 1932 , Ernest Dimnet, What we live by
* 1988 , Keith Critchlow, "Forward", The Theology of Arithmetic , Phanes Press, pages 15-16
*:The geometrical basis of materiality consists of the tetrahedron or 'fourness' of fire or light, the octahedrality of 'sixness' of the gaseousness of air, the icosahedrality or 'twelveness' of the liquidity of water, and the cubic 'eightness' of the solid earthiness.
* 1994 , Michael S. Schneider, A beginner's guide to constructing the universe
As nouns the difference between twelve and twelveness
is that twelve is a group of twelve items while twelveness is the property of being twelve in number.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.twelve
English
(wikipedia twelve)Alternative forms
* Arabic numerals: * Roman numerals: XIINumeral
(head)- There are twelve months in a year.
See also
* 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.
See also
* dozenStatistics
* English cardinal numberstwelveness
English
Noun
(-)- Or walk into a shop and you will see twelveness associated with whiteness and roundness and, I hope, freshness, in a box of eggs.
- Even the proportions of everyday weights and measures were based on the natural twelveness evident in mathematics...
