Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to the number twelve; twelvefold; increasing by twelves.
- In music, pertaining to a duodene, or consisting of duodenes.
- noun A musical instrument for acoustical research, played from a keyboard laid out in duodenes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Containing twelve; twelvefold; increasing by twelves; duodecimal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Twelvefold . - adjective Of the
twelfth order .
Etymologies
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From the Latin duodēnārius ("containing twelve").
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Examples
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Whatever preoperative adjustments Arterton required were a smashing success, as the actress bears almost no resemblance to the duodenary-digited, crumple-eared duckling she was in her youth.
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