79

Prime after seventy-seven

Seventy-nine, the number between 78 and 80.

As a noun, it refers to anything designated by that number: He caught the 79 downtown.

Often appears in contexts involving age, years, addresses, or sports jersey numbers: She lived to be 79, the summer of '79.

counting

seventy-nine

LXXIX in Arabic numerals

total · sum · sequence · quantify · reckon · tabulate · calculate · inventory · score · register

prime

prime number

Integer with two divisors

eighty-three · seventy-three · eighty-nine

atomic

gold

Element seventy-nine

protons · neutrons · electrons · nucleus · isotopes · orbitals · noble metal · transition metal · chemistry · aurum

Categories
Opposites
roundness/precision

7980

Eight tens

100 · 50 · 75 · 1000 · round number

magnitude

790

Numeral for nothing

1 · infinity · zero · one · million

mathematical properties

7980

Eight tens

78 · composite number · even number · 100 · 81

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G