Library / English Dictionary

.22

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A .22 caliber firearm (pistol or rifle)

Synonyms:

.22; twenty-two

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms (".22" is a kind of...):

firearm; piece; small-arm (a portable gun)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of ".22"):

twenty-two pistol (a .22-caliber pistol)

twenty-two rifle (a .22-caliber rifle)

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 Context examples: 

Human AHCY wild-type allele is located in the vicinity of 20q11.22 and is approximately 32 kb in length.

(AHCY wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Human AGTRAP wild-type allele is located in the vicinity of 1p36.22 and is approximately 19 kb in length.

(AGTRAP wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

In one study, on average, about 3.68% of letters used in English tend to be "a"s, while the number is 6.22% in Spanish and 3.95% in French.

(A, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Human ASAH2C wild-type allele is located in the vicinity of 10q11.22 and is approximately 56 kb in length.

(ASAH2C wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Human CPNE1 wild-type allele is located in the vicinity of 20q11.22 and is approximately 39 kb in length.

(CPNE1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Human GNAZ wild-type allele is located in the vicinity of 22q11.22 and is approximately 55 kb in length.

(GNAZ wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Human GDF10 wild-type allele is located in the vicinity of 10q11.22 and is approximately 13 kb in length.

(GDF10 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Human CXorf67 wild-type allele is located in the vicinity of Xp11.22 and is approximately 2 kb in length.

(CXorf67 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This was the highest for June in the 1880–2015 record, surpassing the previous record set last year in 2014 by 0.22°F (0.12°C).

(June 2015 was warmest June on record for the globe, NOAA)