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xxii

xxii

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A Roman numeral for 22
  • numeral
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  • Dowd, A. C., & Tong, V. P. (2007). Accountability, assessment, and the scholarship of "best practice." In J. C. Smart (Ed.), Higher education: Handbook of theory and research (Vol. XXII, pp. 57-119). New York: Agathon Press.

Examples

  • The Roman numeral for twenty-two is written as XXII.

  • The title of the book is Qur'anic (XXI, 11; XXII, 45; XXII, 48).

    Academic text (2003)

  • Second, when you convene in early January 2013, I plead with you to adopt new rules by a simple majority vote and shake off the "dead hand of history" practice that the Senate is a continuing body with continuing rules and that those rules (XXII (2)) require a two-thirds vote to amend the rules, including the rule on cloture or filibuster.

    Blog text (13)

  • In ancient Rome, the number XXII was often used in various inscriptions.

  • When counting in Roman numerals, XXII comes after XXI.

Synonyms

twenty-two
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A number that comes after twenty and before twenty-three

refers to the written Roman form not the abstract number
XXII
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A Roman numeral for the number twenty-two

is the same but written in lowercase Roman letters

Surface Forms

xxii roman numeral

Etymology

The word xxii comes from the Roman number system, where letters stand for numbers and X means 'ten' while I means 'one'. It is two Xs, which are two 'ten's, plus two Is, which are two 'one's, so twenty plus two is twenty-two and that is why xxii shows the number 22.