THIRTY-SECOND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thirty-second mean? 

• THIRTY-SECOND (noun)
  The noun THIRTY-SECOND has 1 sense:

1. one part in thirty-two equal parts

  Familiarity information: THIRTY-SECOND used as a noun is very rare.

• THIRTY-SECOND (adjective)
  The adjective THIRTY-SECOND has 1 sense:

1. the ordinal number of thirty-two in counting order

  Familiarity information: THIRTY-SECOND used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THIRTY-SECOND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One part in thirty-two equal parts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

one-thirty-second; thirty-second; thirty-second part

Hypernyms ("thirty-second" is a kind of...):

common fraction; simple fraction (the quotient of two integers)

• THIRTY-SECOND (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The ordinal number of thirty-two in counting order

Synonyms:

32nd; thirty-second

Similar:

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

 Context examples 

A heavy cross-buttock at the end of the thirty-first round shook the breath from his body, and he came up for the thirty-second with the same jaunty gallantry as ever, but with the dazed expression of a man whose wind has been utterly smashed.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)