seventy-second

Between 71st and 73rd

Seventy-second describes the ordinal position 72 in a sequence: the seventy-second floor, her seventy-second birthday.

A seventy-second is also one of seventy-two equal parts of something, or a note lasting 1/72 of a whole note in music.

ordinal

ranking

Ordered position assignment

ordering · succession · precedence · standing · listing · enumeration · series · consecutive · sequential

duration

instant

Briefest unit of time

  • momentBrief period of time
  • tickParasitic eight-legged pest
  • flashBrief burst of light

jiffy · heartbeat · blink · twinkling · brief · fleeting · countdown · interval · elapsed · stopwatch

measurement

precision

Accuracy of measurement

stopwatch · chronometer · timekeeping · clock · exactness · incremental · granular · fine-grained · hundredths · milliseconds

fraction

denominator

Fraction's bottom number

ratio · division · segment · part · slice · portion · share · quotient · allotment · subdivision

Opposites
ordinal position

seventy-secondfirst

Position number one

last · initial · final · seventy-first · opening

number type

seventy-secondseventy-two

Number after seventy-one

72

Family

second, seventy, seventieth, seventy-two, seventy-first, seventy-third

Familiarity
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G