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seventy-eight

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sev·en·ty-eight (svn-t-t)
n.
A phonograph record designed to be played at 78 revolutions per minute.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.seventy-eight - the cardinal number that is the sum of seventy and eight
large integer - an integer equal to or greater than ten
2.seventy-eight - a shellac based phonograph record that played at 78 revolutions per minute
phonograph record, phonograph recording, disc, platter, record, disk - sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove
Adj.1.seventy-eightseventy-eight - being eight more than seventy        
cardinal - being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order; "cardinal numbers"
Translations
seventy-eight
nAchtundsiebzig f; (= record)Achtundsiebziger(platte) f, → 78er-Platte f


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That they do not very often want the means, may be gathered from the fact, that in July, 1841, no fewer than nine hundred and seventy-eight of these girls were depositors in the Lowell Savings Bank: the amount of whose joint savings was estimated at one hundred thousand dollars, or twenty thousand English pounds.
Henry was now a veteran of seventy-eight, with only three years remaining to his credit in the bank of Time, while Bell was twenty-eight.
This awful bit, sir, page one hundred and seventy-eight, as follows.
 
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