fifty-second

fifty-second (not comparable)

1. The ordinal form of the number fifty-two, describing a person or thing in position number 52 of a sequence.

   The answer appears on the fifty-second page of the book.

   She finished fifty-second in the race.

   • 1947 January and February, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 64:

     Universal Directory of Railway Officials and Railway Year Book, 1946-47. […] Although the preparation of the fifty-second edition of this well-known work proved a far from easy task, owing to the continuance of unsettled conditions in many parts of the world, the response to the endeavours of the publishers to obtain accurate and complete information has exceeded anything that would have been possible twelve months earlier.

2. Lasting fifty seconds.

English ordinal numbers may function as either an adjective or as a noun, and almost never appear in the plural.

• 52nd, 52^nd

fifty-second (plural fifty-seconds)

1. One of fifty-two equal parts of a whole.

   A fifty-second of 1040 is 20.