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🔢 Roman numeral 90 9️⃣ Ninety (90)
XC

XC

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A Roman numeral meaning ninety
  • noun
translation icon : XC
  • XC bike
  • XC race
  • XC racer

Examples

  • Alan Bowness, "Courbet and Baudelaire," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, XC, 1977, 198.

    Academic text (1997)

  • The plaque of Christ, Istanbul Archaeological Museum, inv. no. 4315, preserves the abbreviations IC XC.

    Academic text (1997)

  • The Roman numeral XC is used to represent the number ninety.

  • In mathematics, XC signifies ninety in the system of Roman numerals.

  • The number XC appears frequently in ancient texts that use Roman numerals.

Synonyms

ninety
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A number equal to nine times ten

is the Roman numeral form representing the same numeric value

Surface Forms

XC singular

Morphology

XC = X + C (opaque) = X + C

The symbol 'XC' is a Roman numeral using subtractive notation (X before C = 100 − 10 = 90), not a productive English morphological combination, so knowing the letter words does not let a learner derive the numeric value without knowledge of Roman numerals.

Etymology

XC comes from the Roman number system, where X means '10' and C means '100', and putting the smaller X before the larger C means '100 minus 10', so XC represents '90'.