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75TH
Dictionary entry overview: What does 75th mean?
• 75TH (adjective)
The adjective 75TH has 1 sense:
1. the ordinal number of seventy-five in counting order
Familiarity information: 75TH used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The ordinal number of seventy-five in counting order
Synonyms:
75th; seventy-fifth
Similar:
ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)
Context examples
The researchers then compared growth measurements of head circumference, abdominal circumference, and femur (thigh bone) length of the fetuses of women in the 75th percentile to those of women in the 25th percentile.
(Persistent organic pollutants in maternal blood linked to smaller fetal size, National Institutes of Health)
They found that, compared to fetuses in the 25th percentile of exposure to organochlorine pesticides, the fetuses of women with exposure in the 75th percentile had the most widespread growth reductions, with head circumference reduced by an average of 4.7 mm, abdominal circumference reduced by 3.5 mm, and femur length reduced by 0.6 mm.
(Persistent organic pollutants in maternal blood linked to smaller fetal size, National Institutes of Health)
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