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sudorometer (medicine) and fourteenth (iou)


sudorometer (medicine)


sudorometer


An instrument for measuring the amount of perspiration.

Origin: sudor-+ G. Metron, measure


fourteenth (iou)



fourteenth adjective & noun (ordinal numeral).
[Old English feowerteoTa, repl. in Middle English by forms from FOURTEEN + -TH2. Cf. Old Norse fjortandi.]
A. adjective. Next in order after the thirteenth, that is number fourteen in a series, (represented by 14th). OE.
fourteenth part arch. = sense B.3 below.
b. noun.
The fourteenth person or thing of a category, series, etc., identified contextually, as day of the month, (following a proper name) person, esp. monarch or pope, of the specified name, etc. OE.
Music. An interval embracing fourteen consecutive notes in the diatonic scale; a note a fourteenth above another given note; a chord of two notes a fourteenth apart, or based around the fourteenth of a note. L16.
Each of fourteen equal parts into which something is or may be divided, a fraction which when multiplied by fourteen gives one, (= fourteenth part above). E19.
Comb.: Forming compound numerals with multiples of a hundred, as three-hundred-and-fourteenth (314th) etc.
fourteenthly adverb in the fourteenth place M17.