The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thirty-second \Thir"ty-sec`ond\, a. Being one of thirty-two equal parts into which anything is divided.
Thirty-second note (Mus.), the thirty-second part of a whole note; a demi-semiquaver.
Wiktionary
n. (context fractional English) One of thirty-two equal parts of a whole. num. (context ordinal English) The ordinal form of the number thirty-two, describing a person or thing in position number 32 of a sequence.
WordNet
adj. the ordinal number of thirty-two in counting order [syn: 32nd]
Usage examples of "thirty-second".
TALKED WITH Ellis Alves again, alone, in a small conference room on the thirty-second floor at Cone, Oakes and Baldwin.
X-ray film displayed off to one side and at the blood-pressure indicator, which the anesthetist read off at thirty-second intervals.
Charter, demanding that Baghdad remove the forces it had moved into southern Iraq and refrain from further such deployments south of the Thirty-second Parallel.
Programmed into the automatic sequence was a thirty-second inspection time before the robot surgeon would continue with the removal of the organ.
He thought, in one compressed moment: one kilo of plastic with a thirty-second time pencil will not only blow up a limestone cave, but cut a wire-cored climbing rope.
Then, just to make it more interesting, I added a few fractions-seven and five-eighths, ninety-two and twelve thirty-seconds, and some other combinations.
There's a choice of fatal nerve-gases including the old standby, potassium cyanide, which is a thirty-second killer provided you get it into the target's nose or mouth and not to be disregarded merely because it's been around for a while.
Dammit, he needed to know how many times the people at this table had wet themselves in their prams, and the Home Office handed him a synopsis measured in thirty-second sound bites.
He learned, eventually, to perform with exactitude, the eighths, triplets, sixteenth, and thirty-second notes.
Junior disengaged the heel from the Gray's wing bone, and we retreated to our respective scores for a thirty-second rest.
Drawing renewed strength from a thirty-second rest period, Belina grabbed one of Wissa's feet in each hand and strained to force her away.