eighth : Idioms & Phrases
eighth cranial nerve
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noun a composite sensory nerve supplying the hair cells of the vestibular organ and the hair cells of the cochlea
auditory nerve; nervus vestibulocochlearis; vestibulocochlear nerve; acoustic nerve.
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Eighth note
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noun a musical note having the time value of an eighth of a whole note
quaver.
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(Mus.) , the eighth part of a whole note, or semibreve; a quaver.
Webster 1913
forty-eighth
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adjective satellite the ordinal number of forty-eight in counting order
48th.
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one-eighth
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noun one part in eight equal parts
eighth.
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thirty-eighth
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adjective satellite the ordinal number of thirty-eight in counting order
38th.
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twenty-eighth
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adjective satellite coming next after the twenty-seventh in position
28th.