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| − | duodecimal | + | * '''duodecimal:''' computed by twelves; of a base-12 number system; examples include the hours on a clock, the signs of the zodiac, the months of the calendar, the inches in a foot, the words "dozen" and "gross" (a dozen dozens), etc; the duodecimal system was common in ancient societies due to its divisibility by 2, 3, 4, and 6 → [[The Twelve]] (O) → [[Hoolivans]] |
| − | + | * '''Dewey Decimal System:''' a system of library classification devised by Melvil Dewey in 1870 | |
| − | + | * '''dismally:''' gloomily, sorrowfully, depressingly; the etymology of the word echoes the (12-month) calendrical and (12-sign) zodiacal theme: "dismal" = "dies mali" = "evil or unlucky days," two days of each month determined to be bad by methods supposedly deriving from ancient Egyptian astrology; this meaning held sway for hundreds of years before the word acquired its modern sense | |
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Revision as of 11:38, 7 July 2006
- duodecimal: computed by twelves; of a base-12 number system; examples include the hours on a clock, the signs of the zodiac, the months of the calendar, the inches in a foot, the words "dozen" and "gross" (a dozen dozens), etc; the duodecimal system was common in ancient societies due to its divisibility by 2, 3, 4, and 6 → The Twelve (O) → Hoolivans
- Dewey Decimal System: a system of library classification devised by Melvil Dewey in 1870
- dismally: gloomily, sorrowfully, depressingly; the etymology of the word echoes the (12-month) calendrical and (12-sign) zodiacal theme: "dismal" = "dies mali" = "evil or unlucky days," two days of each month determined to be bad by methods supposedly deriving from ancient Egyptian astrology; this meaning held sway for hundreds of years before the word acquired its modern sense
