2. Noun. (poker slang) A pair of nines. ¹
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Definition of Nines
1. nine [n] - See also: nine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nines
Literary usage of Nines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits by Alfred Cort Haddon, William Halse Rivers Rivers, Charles Gabriel Seligman, Charles Samuel Myers, William McDougall, Sidney Herbert Ray, Anthony Wilkin (1912)
"The pattern of the greater part of the surface is twilled threes in horizontal
rows, varied by horizontal bands of broken nines or zigzag nines (figs. ..."
2. Mechanics Magazine (1825)
"If (9 K + k) be any number whatever added to the general product, and the excess,
k, of its nines be added to the continued product, abc..., ..."
3. A Practical Arithmetic by George Albert Wentworth (1902)
"Proofs by Casting out nines. 490. If the sum of the digits of a number is subtracted
from the number, the remainder is exactly divisible by 9. ..."
4. A Practical Arithmetic by George Albert Wentworth (1902)
"Proofs by Casting oat nines. 490. If the sum of the digits of a number is subtracted
from the number, the remainder is exactly divisible by 9. ..."
5. Higher Arithmetic by Wooster Woodruff Beman, David Eugene Smith (1900)
"CASTING OUT nines. The practical method of determining whether or not a number is
... Check on addition by casting out nines. Since numbers are always ..."
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