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98
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being eight more than ninety
Synonyms:
98; ninety-eight; xcviii
Classified under:
Similar:
cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)
Context examples:
Human NID1 wild-type allele is located in the vicinity of 1q43 and is approximately 98 kb in length.
(NID1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
Human NEURL wild-type allele is located in the vicinity of 10q25.1 and is approximately 98 kb in length.
(NEURL wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
Human MIR148B wild-type allele is located in the vicinity of 12q13.13 and is 98 bases in length.
(MIR148B wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
The human MIR342 wild-type allele is located in the vicinity of 14q32.2 and is approximately 98 bases in length.
(MIR342 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
Northanger Abbey was written in 1797-98 under a different title.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Human DLEU2 wild-type allele is located in the vicinity of 13q14.3 and is approximately 98 kb in length.
(DLEU2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
More than 600,000 Danes are being treated with cholesterol lowering medicine. 98 per cent of them are treated with statins, which curb the body's own production of cholesterol so that the level of cholesterol falls.
(Discovery Can Pave the Way for More Effective Cholesterol Medicine, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
But instead, the bone yielded 98.7% of the bird's mitochondrial genome, the DNA most living things inherit from their mothers.
(Extinct Caribbean bird yields DNA after 2,500 years in watery grave, National Science Foundation)
The continent as a whole is a landmass the size of the U.S. and Mexico combined, of which 98 percent is permanently covered with ice and snow.
(Soot transported from elsewhere in world contributes little to melting of some Antarctic glaciers, National Science Foundation)
This type of cloud system — subsidence-induced methane clouds, or SIMCs for short — could develop between 98,000 to 164,000 feet (30 to 50 kilometers) in altitude above Titan's surface.
(NASA Finds Methane Ice Cloud in Titan's Stratosphere, NASA)
