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20TH
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Coming next after the nineteenth in position
Synonyms:
20th; twentieth
Classified under:
Similar:
ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)
Context examples:
Detectors in Europe picked up the waves and experts realised this would be impossible if the core was liquid, as it was thought to be in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
(Earth's Core Confirmed to Be Solid After 80 Years of Study, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
He sat down; for half-an-hour we never spoke; neither he to me nor I to him: that interval past, he recommenced—Jane, I go in six weeks; I have taken my berth in an East Indiaman which sails on the 20th of June.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Having been condemned, by nature and fortune, to active and restless life, in two months after my return, I again left my native country, and took shipping in the Downs, on the 20th day of June, 1702, in the Adventure, Captain John Nicholas, a Cornish man, commander, bound for Surat.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The results suggest that blood pressure readings lower than those traditionally used to identify women as having high blood pressure may indicate a higher risk for a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy, such as gestational high blood pressure, which develops after the 20th week of pregnancy, and preeclampsia, or high blood pressure and protein in the urine.
(Elevated blood pressure in first trimester increases risk for blood pressure disorder later in pregnancy, National Institutes of Health)
The month of December: Despite the cooling influence of a weak La Nina in the latter part of the year, December ended up as the fourth warmest December on record for the globe, with an average temperature 1.44 degrees F above the 20th century average.
(2017 was 3rd warmest year on record for the globe, NOAA)
The June globally-averaged sea surface temperature was 1.33°F (0.74°C) above the 20th century average.
(June 2015 was warmest June on record for the globe, NOAA)
The globally-averaged sea surface temperature was 0.99°F (0.55°C) above the 20th century average.
(March 2015 and first quarter of year warmest on record, NOAA)
Mr. Briggs calmly took a paper from his pocket, and read out in a sort of official, nasal voice:—'I affirm and can prove that on the 20th of October A.D. — (a date of fifteen years back), Edward Fairfax Rochester, of Thornfield Hall, in the county of —, and of Ferndean Manor, in —shire, England, was married to my sister, Bertha Antoinetta Mason, daughter of Jonas Mason, merchant, and of Antoinetta his wife, a Creole, at — church, Spanish Town, Jamaica. The record of the marriage will be found in the register of that church—a copy of it is now in my possession. Signed, Richard Mason.'
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
During June, the average temperature across global land and ocean surfaces was 1.58°F (0.88°C) above the 20th century average.
(June 2015 was warmest June on record for the globe, NOAA)
During January–March, the average temperature across global land and ocean surfaces was 1.48°F (0.82°C) above the 20th century average.
(March 2015 and first quarter of year warmest on record, NOAA)
