Twelfth can mean:
- The Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
- The Twelfth, a Protestant celebration originating in Ireland.
In mathematics:
- 12th, an ordinal number; as in the item in an order twelve places from the beginning, following the eleventh and preceding the thirteenth.
- 1/12, a vulgar fraction, one part of a unit divided equally into twelve parts.
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Famous quotes containing the word twelfth:
“The twelfth day of Christmas,
My true love sent to me
Twelve lords a-leaping.”
—Unknown. The Twelve Days of Christmas (l. 8991)