Definitions for Dozens
dozens

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1. tons, dozens, heaps, lots, piles, scores, stacks, loads, rafts, slews, wads, oodles, gobs, scads, lashingsnoun

   a large number or amount

   "made lots of new friends"; "she amassed stacks of newspapers"

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1. dozensnoun

   A large number.

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1. dozens

   A dozen (commonly abbreviated doz or dz) is a grouping of twelve. The dozen may be one of the earliest primitive integer groupings, perhaps because there are approximately a dozen cycles of the Moon, or months, in a cycle of the Sun, or year. Twelve is convenient because it has a maximal number of divisors among the numbers up to its double, a property only true of 1, 2, 6, 12, 60, 360, and 2520.The use of twelve as a base number, known as the duodecimal system (also as dozenal), originated in Mesopotamia (see also sexagesimal). Counting in base-12 can easily be accomplished on one's hands by counting each finger bone with one's thumb. Using this method, one hand can count to twelve, and two hands (with the second hand as a placeholder for representing units of twelve) can count to 144. Twelve dozen (122 = 144) are known as a gross; and twelve gross (123 = 1,728, the duodecimal 1,000) are called a great gross, a term most often used when shipping or buying items in bulk. A great hundred, also known as a small gross, is 120 or ten dozen. Dozen may also be used to express a large quantity as in "several dozen" (e.g., dozens of people came to the party).Varying by country, some products are packaged or sold by the dozen, often foodstuff (a dozen eggs). According to one source, sales by the dozen may derive from English units, a system under which “one egg could be sold for a penny or 12 for a shilling, which was equal to 12 pennies.”

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1. Dozens

   of Dozen

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1. • Large Indefinite Quantity

Anagrams for Dozens »

1. zendos

How to pronounce Dozens?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Dozens in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Dozens in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of Dozens in a Sentence

1. Rami Fahmy Mayuni:

   The Houthis planted dozens of landmines to hinder our ability to take it back. The battle was violent and took a couple hours, but the power plant is destroyed, and there's no way to pump water.

2. Ahmed Abu-Ghazal:

   I was surprised by a massive explosion and then saw dozens of militants surrounding the checkpoint and opening fire.

3. Robert Walker:

   These reviews are legendary for how particular Apple is, supposedly, a security review is part of that. But they missed this repeatedly over dozens of different applications. A huge mistake on their part.

4. Richard Blumenthal:

   New revelations that Facebook provided access to users' personal information, including religion, political preferences, and relationship status, to dozens of mobile device manufacturers without users' explicit consent are deeply concerning.

5. Abbey Collins:

   We rolled out a new low dollar campaign to reach a wide variety of supporters and as part of that effort reached out to our network, just as Ms. Nixon’s campaign has dozens of contributions from her staff and their family members, as the latest filing and poll numbers show, Cynthia’s campaign is on life support, which is why her lines are getting increasingly more combative and desperate.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Dozens
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dozens
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Dozens