forty-six

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A number equal to forty plus six

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The post office is raising the price of a first-class stamp from forty-six cents to forty-nine cents.
Forty-six percent
Forty-six states
total of forty-six

Examples

The survey was composed of forty-six questions divided into three sections.

Academic text (1996)
Since NAFTA, home construction has boomed, and forty-six new plants have opened.

Academic text (1997)
Of the forty-six police officers injured, less than ten were taken to a hospital.

Academic text (2001)
"Is economic reform being introduced too fast or too slowly?" Forty-six percent considered it too slow; 15 percent too fast.

Academic text (1995)
Additionally, approximately forty-six states authorize cooperative purchasing in some form.

Academic text (2017)
Prior to the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade, abortion was illegal in forty-six states.

Academic text (2017)
Fifty-three undergraduate and forty-six graduate students completed recall tasks designed to measure REA knowledge structure.

Academic text (2005)
Mean percentiles in all forty-six schools ranged from the 35th to the 80th percentile.

Academic text (1991)
The Boeing 777 was carrying two hundred forty-six passengers on a flight to Brazil.
In 1960, more than forty-six million households, about 87 percent, had a television set.

forty-six cardinal word

46 cardinal digit

forty-six = forty + six (transparent) = forty + six

The numeral is a straightforward compound of 'forty' + 'six' denoting 40 plus 6.

The word forty-six is made from forty ('four tens') and six ('six'), so it means 'four tens and six more'.