Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A phonograph record designed to be played at 78 revolutions per minute.

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  • noun cardinal number after seventy-seven and before seventy-nine;
  • noun A gramophone record designed to be rotated at 78 revolutions per minute; a 78

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a shellac based phonograph record that played at 78 revolutions per minute
  • adjective being eight more than seventy
  • noun the cardinal number that is the sum of seventy and eight

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Examples

  • In one month at the dealership—August 1994—he had his name on seventy-eight deals.

    California Dreaming Lawrence Donegan 2002

  • In one month at the dealership—August 1994—he had his name on seventy-eight deals.

    California Dreaming Lawrence Donegan 2002

  • Greg McMichael—Every pitch he threw seemed to be about seventy-eight miles per hour, and seemed to travel on a consistent parabola.

    In the Time of Bobby Cox Lang Whitaker 2011

  • I was cheering at thirty-three rpm, and the rest of the squad was at seventy-eight.

    The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011

  • “Fellow graduates of the class of seventy-eight, Principal Osder, distinguished guests, family, friends . . .”

    The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011

  • During that war, NATO planes had bombed civilian infrastructure and inhabited areas of Serbia, flying more than 38,000 missions over the course of seventy-eight days, and dropping almost twenty thousand bombs.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • “Fellow graduates of the class of seventy-eight, Principal Osder, distinguished guests, family, friends . . .”

    The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011

  • Nineteen seventy-eight may have been a wild time for fashion, but I partook of no extremes: no mile-high platform shoes, no garish tie-dyes or fringed leather vests.

    The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011

  • Greg McMichael—Every pitch he threw seemed to be about seventy-eight miles per hour, and seemed to travel on a consistent parabola.

    In the Time of Bobby Cox Lang Whitaker 2011

  • At seventy-eight, his metabolism was certainly in high gear.

    How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011

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