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11TH

 Dictionary entry overview: What does 11th mean? 

11TH (adjective)
  The adjective 11TH has 1 sense:

1. coming next after the tenth and just before the twelfth in positionplay

  Familiarity information: 11TH used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


11TH (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Coming next after the tenth and just before the twelfth in position

Synonyms:

11th; eleventh

Similar:

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


 Context examples 


A monounsaturated very long-chain fatty acid with a 22-carbon backbone and a single double bond originating from either the 3rd, 7th, 9th, 11th or 17th positions from the methyl end.

(Docosenoic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

The ice cracked behind us and was driven with force towards the north; a breeze sprang from the west, and on the 11th the passage towards the south became perfectly free.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

A monounsaturated long-chain fatty acid with a 20-carbon backbone and the sole double bond originating from the 5th, 6th, 7th, 9th, 11th 12th or 15th positions from the methyl end.

(Eicosenoic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

A monounsaturated long-chain fatty acid with a 20-carbon backbone and the sole double bond originating from the 11th position from the methyl end, with the bond in the cis- configuration.

(Gadoleic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

A polyunsaturated long-chain fatty acid with a 16-carbon backbone and double bonds originating from the 7th position and either the 10th, 11th or 13th positions from the methyl end.

(Hexadecadienoic Acid n-7, NCI Thesaurus)

Monounsaturated fatty acid with 20 carbons and the double bond at the 11th carbon from the methyl end.

(Gadoleic Acid, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

We set out the 5th day of August, 1706, and arrived at Fort St. George the 11th of April, 1707.

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

Monounsaturated fatty acid with 22 carbons and the double bond at the 11th carbon from the methyl end.

(Cetoleic Acid, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

The volunteers’ speed at which they correctly typed the numbers improved dramatically during the first few trials and then leveled off around the 11th cycle.

(Brains may use short rest periods to strengthen memories, National Institutes of Health)

Phosphorus is the 11th most common element on Earth, and it is fundamental to all living things.

(Finding Alien Life Unlikely Due to Lack of Phosphorus in Universe, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)



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