twelve

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[...] It was not until 1963, that is, twelve years later, that we felt it worked.

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the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one

Meaning at a glance

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noun

the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one

adjective

denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for twelve.

noun

the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one

adjective

denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units

Example sentences

[...] It was not until 1963, that is, twelve years later, that we felt it worked.

They can often easily do twelve or sixteen hours a day, but the extra time is simply wasted.

Then within the next twelve months to have written the chorus:"I should be so lucky Luck, lucky, lucky I should be so lucky in love"

You can literally be a twelve-year-old kid with a $200 cast-off computer and yet do top-notch software work.

I want to make you very strong, so I want you to visualize the person who is better than you in every way, and also twelve years old.

Here in post-collapse Argentina, I semi-regularly attend a free bike repair workshop run by a bunch of anarchists who occupied a pizzeria abandoned in the collapse, twelve years ago.

The people in charge don't care if twelve undergrads lost their eyesight debugging the code, and it stops working if the lab door is shut too loudly.- I learned that if I just wrote my software in the proper language, in the proper way, and didn't tell anybody I was doing it that way, everything worked out extremely well.