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seventy-ninth

n. (context fractional English) One of seventy-nine equal parts of a whole. num. (context ordinal English) The ordinal form of the number seventy-nine, describing a person or thing in position number 79 of a sequence.

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For it was one of her dreams, perhaps the six hundred and seventy-ninth in the series, that one day she would sit at a desk answering innumerable telephone calls with projecting jaw, as millionaires do on the movies, and crushing rivals like blackbeetles in order that, after being reviled by the foolish as a heartless plutocrat, she might hand a gigantic Trust over to the Socialist State.

Gold is the seventy-ninth element and the chemical symbol for it is AU.