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6️⃣ Number 64th 🧩 One of 64 parts
sixty-fourth

sixty-fourth

2.7
One of sixty-four equal parts of a whole
  • noun
  • /ˈsɪkstiˈfɔrθ/
translation icon : sexagésima cuarta parte
  • In this recipe, you only need a sixty-fourth of a teaspoon of saffron.

Examples

  • He divided the cake into sixty-fourths for the party.

  • He cut the cake into sixty-fourth pieces for the experiment.

  • Just a sixty-fourth of an inch can make a difference in precision engineering.

  • Each piece is a sixty-fourth of the whole.

  • When dividing the pizza into sixty-four equal slices, each slice is one sixty-fourth of the whole pizza.

  • He only completed one sixty-fourth of the project by the deadline, which was disappointing.

  • In the math problem, each piece represented a sixty-fourth of the total area of the rectangle.

Synonyms

one-sixty-fourth
vssixty-fourth
4.2

One of sixty-four equal parts of a whole

is identical in meaning but written without the initial word one

How Small

sixty-fourth
2.7
sixteenth
4 1.0
eighth
36 1.0
to quarter
5 2.1
half
∞ 1.0
whole
484 1.0

Surface Forms

sixty-fourth singular
sixty-fourths plural

Morphology

sixty-fourth = sixty-four (transparent) = sixty + four + th

The fractional noun is formed from the cardinal 'sixty-four' plus the ordinal/fractional suffix '-th' (standard and predictable).

Etymology

Sixty-fourth is formed from sixty-four and the ending -th and originally means 'one of sixty-four equal parts', so a sixty-fourth is a very small piece, like one slice when you cut a cake into 64 pieces.