NOUN
- a shellac based phonograph record that played at 78 revolutions per minute
- the cardinal number that is the sum of seventy and eight
ADJECTIVE
- being eight more than seventy
How To Use 78 In A Sentence
- An element discovered in 1982 has been named meitnerium to honor Lise Meitner (1878-1968), the Austrian-Swedish physicist and mathematician who discovered the element protactinium and made major contributions to the understanding of nuclear fission. Elements
- NHS penpusher boom: Wages bill is up £78m as 'costly' drugs are vetoed Home | Mail Online
- The dates of discovery of these elements as 1789 for uranium, 1829 for thorium, 1899 for actinium and 1913 for protactinium.
- Founded by the British in1781, it was called Stabroek while it was controlled by the Dutch and was renamed Georgetown in1812. Population, 78, 500.
- By 1781, British General Lord Charles Cornwallis was ordered to march into Virginia to await resupply near Chesapeake Bay.
- Crile Jr. and S. O. Hoerr, “Results of Treatment of Carcinoma of the Breast by Local Excision,” Surgery, Gynecology, and Obstetrics 132 1971: 780–82. The Emperor of All Maladies
- The French navy, painfully rebuilt in the 1770s and 1780s, suffered badly from the effects of the French Revolution.
- La Tour 1704–1788, the son of a musician, was born in Saint-Quentin, a small town in Picardy, France. A Tour de Force, Honest and Engaging
- He located seven sites connected with the lives of the Gurus and had shrines raised thereon within the space of eight months, from April to November 1783.
- Brooklyn itself was fine but calling 278 an expressway is a laugh. First we take Manhattan, then we..well...we go to Brooklyn.