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48
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being eight more than forty
Synonyms:
48; forty-eight; xlviii
Classified under:
Similar:
cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)
Context examples:
Keratin, type I cytoskeletal 20 (424 aa, ~48 kDa) is encoded by the human KRT20 gene.
(Keratin, Type I Cytoskeletal 20, NCI Thesaurus)
Keratin, type I cytoskeletal 18 (430 aa, ~48 kDa) is encoded by the human KRT18 gene.
(Keratin, Type I Cytoskeletal 18, NCI Thesaurus)
Height: at least 26-28 inches (71 cm.) Weight: 60-105 pounds (27-48 kg.)
(Borzoi, NCI Thesaurus)
Aspartate aminotransferase, mitochondrial (430 aa, ~48 kDa) is encoded by the human GOT2 gene.
(Aspartate Aminotransferase, Mitochondrial, NCI Thesaurus)
Cassini used magnetic field data, too, but earlier estimates ranged from 10:36 all the way to 10:48.
(Scientists Finally Know What Time It Is on Saturn, NASA)
Third place and the bronze medal went to Abderrahman Samba of Qatar with a time of 48.03 seconds.
(Norway's Warholm wins gold in 400 m hurdles at World Championships in Doha, Wikinews)
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)
Between 2000 and 2010, they rose by another 0.48°C (0.86°F).
(Retreat of Yakutat Glacier, NASA)
In both forest age classes, a net gain of 8.48 trillion kilograms of carbon is stored over 40 years.
(Natural regeneration of tropical forests helps global climate mitigation and forest restoration, NSF)
Discovered in 2018 by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Satellite Survey (TESS) mission, planet LHS 3844b is located 48.6 light-years from Earth and has a radius 1.3 times that of Earth.
(A Rare Look at a Rocky Exoplanet's Surface, NASA)
