By the twentieth minute they were three points down.
An article celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the club showed a cake with twenty candles, each representing an issue on which the club had worked.
The second case was that of the alleged "twentieth hijacker."
The prohibition against graven images of God in the twentieth chapter of "Exodus" becomes an indictment of representation that targets the very foundations of modernity: thou shalt not make of God an object.
Either the date is specified in the directive or, in the absence of any such date, is deemed to be the twentieth day following that of publication.
2Each of twenty equal parts into which something is or may be divided.
a twentieth of a second
we save around a twentieth of our cash
Example sentencesExamples
A heat shield slowed the craft to a twentieth of its speed.
This monster contains 20 times the computing power - in one twentieth of the space - of an equivalent machine from 12 years ago.
The size of the sample amount required for analysis is cut to one twentieth that of the conventional method.
Durban can build a new cemetery for 8 million rand ($1.25 million) every week without spending even a twentieth of their budget.
The company is challenging them to make a $100 million movie for a twentieth of the cost.
Definition of twentieth in US English:
twentieth
ordinal numberˈtwɛn(t)iəθˈtwen(t)ēəTH
1Constituting number twenty in a sequence; 20th.
the late twentieth century
her twentieth birthday
Example sentencesExamples
By the twentieth minute they were three points down.
An article celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the club showed a cake with twenty candles, each representing an issue on which the club had worked.
The prohibition against graven images of God in the twentieth chapter of "Exodus" becomes an indictment of representation that targets the very foundations of modernity: thou shalt not make of God an object.
The second case was that of the alleged "twentieth hijacker."
Either the date is specified in the directive or, in the absence of any such date, is deemed to be the twentieth day following that of publication.
2a twentieth/one twentiethEach of twenty equal parts into which something is or may be divided.
a twentieth of a second
we save around a twentieth of our cash
Example sentencesExamples
This monster contains 20 times the computing power - in one twentieth of the space - of an equivalent machine from 12 years ago.
The company is challenging them to make a $100 million movie for a twentieth of the cost.
The size of the sample amount required for analysis is cut to one twentieth that of the conventional method.
A heat shield slowed the craft to a twentieth of its speed.
Durban can build a new cemetery for 8 million rand ($1.25 million) every week without spending even a twentieth of their budget.