thirty-second
Americanadjective
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next after the thirty-first; being the ordinal number for 32.
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being one of 32 equal parts.
noun
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a thirty-second part, especially of one (1/32).
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the thirty-second member of a series.
Example Sentences
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She’d gotten all that out of a thirty-second stop in the office.
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If I stopped someone to ask them a question, and that thirty-second delay caused them to accidentally get taken out by a runaway horse or something, I could completely alter history.
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The pattern continues with eighth notes, sixteenth notes, thirty-second notes, sixty-fourth notes, and so on, each type of note being half the length of the previous type.
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“In just a thirty-second discussion, look how easy it is to jump to anger and assumptions. Now let’s take our time and dig a little deeper.”
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An eighth of a foot...a sixteenth of a foot...a thirty-second of a foot...smaller and smaller distances, but Achilles never catches up.
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