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  • noun ordinal The ordinal form of the number sixty-two, describing a person or thing in position number 62 of a sequence.
  • noun fractional One of sixty-two equal parts of a whole.

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Examples

  • You inch your way through the park to the twenty-five-cent binocular viewers—the type that tourists drop a quarter in to get a sixty-second look at the Statue of Liberty.

    Can You Survive The Zombie Apocalypse? Max Brallier 2011

  • You inch your way through the park to the twenty-five-cent binocular viewers—the type that tourists drop a quarter in to get a sixty-second look at the Statue of Liberty.

    Can You Survive The Zombie Apocalypse? Max Brallier 2011

  • However, as I am now about to enter my sixty-second year on this planet, that fear has become a reality, but the imagined consequences have turned out to be far from true.

    Live and Let Love Andrea Buchanan 2011

  • Unlike most numerical systems, mathematics as taught by the Chaldeans was based on the number sixty rather than ten—a way of measuring time and space passed on to later civilizations as the sixty-minute hour, the sixty-second minute, and the 360-degree circle six times sixty.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • However, as I am now about to enter my sixty-second year on this planet, that fear has become a reality, but the imagined consequences have turned out to be far from true.

    Live and Let Love Andrea Buchanan 2011

  • Unlike most numerical systems, mathematics as taught by the Chaldeans was based on the number sixty rather than ten—a way of measuring time and space passed on to later civilizations as the sixty-minute hour, the sixty-second minute, and the 360-degree circle six times sixty.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • Unlike most numerical systems, mathematics as taught by the Chaldeans was based on the number sixty rather than ten—a way of measuring time and space passed on to later civilizations as the sixty-minute hour, the sixty-second minute, and the 360-degree circle six times sixty.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • They had committed suicide shortly after their sixty-second wedding anniversary.

    SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

  • Ustad Ahmad Lahori had reached his sixty-second year on this earth, and most of those years had been spent in service to the Mughal Emperors of Hindustan.

    Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010

  • Ustad Ahmad Lahori had reached his sixty-second year on this earth, and most of those years had been spent in service to the Mughal Emperors of Hindustan.

    Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010

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