forty-eighth

US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(fôr′tē ātth′, -āth′)


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for•ty-eighth  (fôr′tē ātth′, -āth′),USA pronunciation adj. 
  1. next after the forty-seventh;
    being the ordinal number for 48.
  2. being one of 48 equal parts.

n. 
  1. a forty-eighth part, esp. of one (1⁄48).
  2. the forty-eighth member of a series.

'forty-eighth' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
forty-ninth

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