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84
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being four more than eighty
Synonyms:
84; eighty-four; lxxxiv
Classified under:
Similar:
cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)
Context examples:
There are thousands of different types of MOFs that researchers can make – there are currently more than 84,000 MOF structures in the Cambridge Structural Database with 1000 new structures published each month – and their properties can be tuned for specific purposes.
(Nanoparticles used to transport anti-cancer agent to cells, University of Cambridge)
The researchers analyzed NCI’s Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program registry data on more than 700,000 patients age 20–84 in the United States with solid tumors who were diagnosed and treated with initial chemotherapy during 2000–2013 and survived at least one year after diagnosis.
(Study finds elevated risk of certain rare blood cancers after chemotherapy for most solid tumors, National Institutes of Health)
