Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In music, a tone distant three octaves from a given tone, or the interval between two such tones; a triple octave.

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  • adjective The ordinal form of the number twenty-two.
  • noun The person or thing in the twenty-second position.
  • noun One of twenty-two equal parts of a whole.

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  • adjective coming next after the twenty-first in position

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Examples

  • Who speculated about life in the twenty-second century, let alone the next millennium, before throwing groovy into the recycling bin?

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Who speculated about life in the twenty-second century, let alone the next millennium, before throwing groovy into the recycling bin?

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Will Global English-speakers of the twenty-second century require special training to read or listen to English as it was used before the arrival of the internet?

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Will Global English-speakers of the twenty-second century require special training to read or listen to English as it was used before the arrival of the internet?

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • A bit of home arrived in the small package I received around my twenty-second birthday.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad Jack Canfield 2011

  • “Men,” he said, his voice rich with authority, “10: 16,76 and B paragraph 19 of the twenty-second edition.”

    RC: HCGK, Deployment « Unknowing 2010

  • It was their twenty-second anniversary, and they were out by themselves.

    Skipping a Beat Sarah Pekkanen 2011

  • He was on the twenty-second floor of Canapia Ltd., and had just watched the chickens pass through sliding glass doors which were marked: Canapia Laboratory.

    Corporate HQ « Unknowing 2010

  • They ended up twenty-fifth and twenty-second respectively.

    SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

  • Then, on November twenty-second, our union, Local 25, voted for a general strike and shirtwaist workers all across the city walked out.

    Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011

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  • A triple octave. In a musical scale 3x8=22. Try it on your piano.

    January 3, 2013