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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The ordinal number matching the number 11 in a series.
  • noun One of 11 equal parts.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Next in order after the tenth: an ordinal number.
  • Constituting one of eleven equal parts into which anything is divided: as, the eleventh part of fifty-five is five.
  • noun One of eleven equal parts; the quotient of unity divided by eleven: as, five elevenths of fifty-five are twenty-five.
  • noun In early English law, an eleventh part of the rents of the year, or of movables, or both, granted or levied by way of tax.
  • noun In music:

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Next after the tenth.
  • adjective Constituting one of eleven parts into which a thing is divided.
  • adjective (Mus.) Of or pertaining to the interval of the octave and the fourth.
  • noun The quotient of a unit divided by eleven; one of eleven equal parts.
  • noun (Mus.) The interval consisting of ten conjunct degrees; the interval made up of an octave and a fourth.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective The ordinal form of the number eleven.
  • noun The person or thing in the eleventh position.
  • noun One of eleven equal parts of a whole.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective coming next after the tenth and just before the twelfth in position
  • noun position 11 in a countable series of things

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