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2D

 Dictionary entry overview: What does 2d mean? 

2D (adjective)
  The adjective 2D has 1 sense:

1. coming next after the first in position in space or time or degree or magnitudeplay

  Familiarity information: 2D used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


2D (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Coming next after the first in position in space or time or degree or magnitude

Synonyms:

2d; 2nd; second

Similar:

ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)


 Context examples 


2d, He shall not presume to come into our metropolis, without our express order; at which time, the inhabitants shall have two hours warning to keep within doors.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

“If any drop of gloom were wanting in the overflowing cup, which is now “commended” (in the language of an immortal Writer) to the lips of the undersigned, it would be found in the fact, that a friendly acceptance granted to the undersigned, by the before-mentioned Mr. Thomas Traddles, for the sum Of 23l 4s 9 1/2d is over due, and is NOT provided for.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)



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