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15TH
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Coming next after the fourteenth and just before the sixteenth in position
Synonyms:
15th; fifteenth
Classified under:
Similar:
ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)
Context examples:
A polyunsaturated long-chain fatty acid with a 20-carbon backbone and 5 double bonds, originating from the 3rd, 6th, 9th, 12th and 15th positions from the methyl end.
(Icosapent, NCI Thesaurus)
Polyunsaturated fatty acid with 20 carbons and 5 double bonds at the 3rd, 6th, 9th, 12th and 15th carbons from the methyl end.
(Icosapent, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)
Polyunsaturated fatty acid with 20 carbons and 3 double bonds at the 9th, 12th, and 15th carbon from the methyl end.
(Mead Acid, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)
Polyunsaturated fatty acid with 21 carbons and 5 double bonds at the 3rd, 6th, 9th, 12th and 15th carbons from the methyl end.
(Fatty Acid 21:5 n-3, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)
A polyunsaturated long-chain fatty acid with a 20-carbon backbone and 3 double bonds, originating from the 9th, 12th and 15th positions from the methyl end, with all bonds in the cis- configuration.
(Mead Acid, NCI Thesaurus)
A monounsaturated long-chain fatty acid with a 20-carbon backbone and the sole double bond originating from the 5th, 6th, 7th, 9th, 11th 12th or 15th positions from the methyl end.
(Eicosenoic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)
On the 15th, he tried again, and was again refused; and having now been used for the last two months to see his friend almost daily, he found this return of solitude to weigh upon his spirits.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The mysterious disappearance of Greenland’s Norse colonies sometime in the 15th century may have been down to the overexploitation of walrus populations for their tusks, according to a study of medieval artefacts from across Europe.
(Over-hunting walruses contributed to the collapse of Norse Greenland, University of Cambridge)
Double bonds for docosatrienoic acid can be originating from either the (3rd, 6th and 9th), the (5th, 11th and 17th), the (7th, 13th and 19th) or the (9th, 12th and 15th) positions from the methyl end.
(Docosatrienoic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)
A polyunsaturated very long-chain fatty acid with a 22-carbon backbone and 5 double bonds, originating from the 3rd, 6th, 9th, 12th and 15th positions from the methyl end, with all double bonds in the cis- configuration.
(Clupanodonic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)
