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9️⃣ The number 98 9️⃣ Amount: 98
ninety-eight

ninety-eight

4 1.0
A number equal to ninety plus eight
  • numeral
translation icon : noventa y ocho
  • Ninety-eight shoppers completed the short form of the USDA Household Food Security Scale, and two tools were developed for the present study.
  • Ninety-eight percent

Examples

  • Ninety-eight percent of those responding were from state-supported institutions, with 85% on the semester system.

    Academic text (1990)

  • A study at the Institute of Medicine found that ninety-eight thousand people a year die in the U.S. due to medical error.

    Academic text (2007)

  • Ninety-eight percent of survey participants indicated that they had courses that were taught with PowerPoint.

    Academic text (2007)

  • Phillip Roberts, who lives in Chowchilla, California, became ninety-eight years old.

    Academic text (1990)

  • Ninety-eight percent of Hong Kong's 5.5 million people are of Chinese origin.

    Academic text (1990)

  • Ninety-eight percent of Macao's 400,000 population is of Chinese origin.

    Academic text (1990)

  • Ninety-eight percent of all reservation residents were Crows, and two-thirds of them spoke only their tribal language.

    Academic text (1991)

  • Ninety-eight control urine samples were obtained from age-matched HIV-negative volunteers.

    Academic text (1991)

  • The report indicated that ninety-eight percent of participants completed the survey.

  • The building is located ninety-eight feet above sea level.

Synonyms

xcviii
vsninety-eight
9.9

A Roman way to write the number 98

is the normal spoken and written name used instead of Roman notation

How Many

hundred
∞ 1.0
ninety-eight
4 1.0
ninety
296 1.0
fifty
876 1.0
ten
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

ninety-eight cardinal word
98 cardinal digit
98th ordinal digit

Morphology

ninety-eight = ninety + eight (transparent) = ninety + eight

Formed by compounding the tens word 'ninety' and the units 'eight', a directly interpretable numeral construction for learners.

Etymology

Ninety-eight comes from putting ninety and eight together, where ninety originally meant 'nine tens'. So ninety-eight literally means 'nine tens and eight more', which is why it is the number 98.