twenty-four
See also: twenty four
English
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| Cardinal: twenty-four Ordinal: twenty-fourth Abbreviated ordinal: 24th Adverbial: twenty-four times | ||
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌtwɛntiˈfɔː/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌtwɛntiˈfɔɹ/, [-ɾi-]
Audio (Mid-Atlantic US): (file) - (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: fōr, IPA(key): /ˌtwɛntiˈfo(ː)ɹ/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /ˌtwɛntiˈfoə/
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: twen‧ty-four
Numeral
[edit]twenty-four
- The cardinal number immediately following twenty-three and preceding twenty-five.
- 1985, Michael Swanwick, “Boneseeker”, in In the Drift (New Ace Science Fiction Specials; series 3), New York, N.Y.: Ace Science Fiction Books, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 2017, →ISBN, page 80:
- "The guy that just left—what's he got in his lungs?" / "Well, I'm not very sure. But the two best candidates are uranium-233 and plutonium-239, one or both." / "They're in his bones too, aren't they?" / "Yeah, they're both boneseekers. And they've got half-lives of one hundred sixty-two thousand and twenty-four thousand years respectively. So they stay hot for a long time."
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[edit]cardinal number
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