Meaning of NINE
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- [n] a team of professional baseball players who play and travel together; "each club played six home games with teams in its own division"
- [n] the cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one
- [adj] denoting a quantity consisting of one more than eight and one less than ten
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| Synonyms: | | 9, 9, ball club, baseball club, cardinal, club, ennead, ix, IX, Nina from Carolina, niner |
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| See Also: | | baseball league, baseball team, digit, figure | |
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| Definition: | | Nine L.A. detective Alex Hardwick`s investigation into a serial killer whose victims share one important link--they are all on the FBI`s most wanted list--takes a turn for the personal when it begins to looks as though the killer may be a member of his own family--or could the killer be setting Alex up? more details ... |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Nine\, a. [OE. nine, nihen, AS. nigon, nigan; akin to D. &
LG. negen, OS. & OFries. nigun, OHG. niun, G. neun, Icel.
n[=i]u, sw. nio, Dan. ni, Goth. niun, Ir. & Gael. naoi, W.
naw, L. novem, gr. ?, Skr. navan; of unknown origin.
[root]307. Cf. {Novembeer}.]
Eight and one more; one less than ten; as, nine miles.
{Nine men's morris}. See {Morris}.
{Nine points circle} (Geom.), a circle so related to any
given triangle as to pass through the three points in
which the perpendiculars from the angles of the triangle
upon the opposite sides (or the sides produced) meet the
sides. It also passes through the three middle points of
the sides of the triangle and through the three middle
points of those parts of the perpendiculars that are
between their common point of meeting and the angles of
the triangle. The circle is hence called the {nine points
or six points circle}.
\Nine\, n.
1. The number greater than eight by a unit; nine units or
objects.
2. A symbol representing nine units, as 9 or ix.
{The Nine}, the nine Muses.
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| Related Terms: | | cast, company, complement, crew, eight, eleven, ennead, enneastyle, first string, first team, five, Nina from Carolina, nonage, nonagon, nonuplet, novena, platoon, reserves, rowing crew, second string, second team, squad, string, team, third string, varsity |
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