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Twelfth part   /twɛlfθ pɑrt/   Listen
Twelfth part

noun
1.
One part in twelve equal parts.  Synonyms: duodecimal, one-twelfth, twelfth.






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"Twelfth part" Quotes from Famous Books



... encouraging his countrymen, led them against Sparta, and, passing the Eurotas, took many of the towns, and wasted the country as far as the sea. This army consisted of seventy thousand Greeks, of which number the Thebans could not make the twelfth part; but the reputation of the men made all their allies contented to follow them as leaders, though no articles to that effect had been made. For, indeed, it seems the first and paramount law, that he that wants a defender, is naturally a subject to him that is able to defend: as mariners, though ...
— Plutarch's Lives • A.H. Clough



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