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Signal flag for the digit 9

Borrowed from English nine.

nine

  1. (international standards) NATO & ICAO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for the digit 9.
    Synonym: novenine (ITU/IMO)

ICAO/NATO radiotelephonic clear codes

Alfa Bravo Charlie Delta Echo Foxtrot Golf Hotel India Juliett Kilo Lima Mike
November Oscar Papa Quebec Romeo Sierra Tango Uniform Victor Whiskey Xray Yankee Zulu
zero one two three (tree) four (fower) five (fife) six seven eight nine (niner) hundred thousand decimal

ICAO/NATO vs ITU/IMO radiotelephonic clear codes for digits

ICAO/NATO zero one two three (tree) four (fower) five (fife) six seven eight nine (niner)
ITU/IMO nadazero unaone bissotwo terrathree kartefour pantafive soxisix setteseven oktoeight novenine
  1. ^ Annex 10 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation: Aeronautical Telecommunications; Volume II Communication Procedures including those with PANS status‎[1], 6th edition, International Civil Aviation Organization, October 2001, archived from the original on 31 March 2019, page §5.2.1.4.3.1
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English numbers (edit)

| | 90 | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | - | -------------------------------- | | ← 8 | 9 | 10 → | | Cardinal: nine Ordinal: ninth Abbreviated ordinal: 9th Latinate ordinal: nonary Adverbial: nine times Multiplier: ninefold Latinate multiplier: nonuple Germanic collective: ninesome Collective of n parts: nonuplet Greek or Latinate collective: ennead, nonad Greek collective prefix: ennea- Latinate collective prefix: nona- Fractional: ninth Elemental: nonuplet Number of musicians: nonet Number of years: novennium | | |

PIE word
*h₁néwn̥

From Middle English nyn, nyne, from Old English nigon (“nine”), from Proto-West Germanic *neun, from Proto-Germanic *newun (“nine”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥ (“nine”). Cognate with Scots neen, nine (“nine”), Saterland Frisian njúgen (“nine”), West Frisian njoggen (“nine”), Dutch negen (“nine”), German Low German negen (“nine”), German neun (“nine”), Danish ni (“nine”), Swedish nio (“nine”), Icelandic níu (“nine”), Gothic 𐌽𐌹𐌿𐌽 (niun, “nine”), Latin novem (“nine”), Ancient Greek ἐννέα (ennéa, “nine”), Sanskrit नव (náva, “nine”).

nine

  1. A numerical value equal to 9; the number following eight and preceding ten.
    • 2007, Thomas Mchenry, Along the Rails: A Juror's Journey‎[2], page 85:
      Would they want me to vote my conscience or would they want us to unanimously go the whole nine yards, declare him sane and possibly have the trial end up in a death sentence?
    • 2008 March 2, Tanya Khovanova, “Autobiographical Numbers”, in arXiv‎[3], page 3‎[4], archived from the original on 20 April 2024:
      Of course, for a number to have a biography, we need to assume that none of its digits are present more than nine times.
    • 2021 February 10, Eoin McSweeney, “As Covid-19 cases rise in Nigeria, a government policy is creating crowds and chaos”, in CNN‎[5], archived from the original on 23 March 2021:
      Tamunowari Tetenta, a 20-year-old mechanical engineering student, says he has attempted to register for his NIN on nine different occasions in Port Harcourt, a city southeast of Lagos.
  2. Describing a group or set with nine elements.
    A cat has nine lives.

cardinal number

nine (plural nines)

  1. The digit or figure 9.
    • 2008 March 2, Tanya Khovanova, “Autobiographical Numbers”, in arXiv‎[6], page 3‎[7]:
      Indeed, if a number does not have nines, you can remove or add zeroes at the end of a biography to get another biography of the same number.
  2. (card games) A playing card with nine pips.
  3. (weaponry) A nine-millimeter semi-automatic pistol.
    • 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 359:
      Hiro risks turning on a small flashlight, uses it to rummage around the yatcht, picking up valuable stuff: a few bottles of (presumably) drinkable water, some food, extra ammunition for his nine.
  4. (computing, engineering, usually in the plural) A statistical unit of proportion (of reliability, purity, etc.).
    They guaranteed that our Web site would have 99.99% uptime, or four nines.
  5. (baseball) A baseball club, team, or lineup (composed of nine players).
    • 1877, Chicago Times, July 8, 1877:[1]
      The St. Louis club is the only nine in the league which gives its patrons the right to see a full game or no pay.

the digit or figure 9

card with nine pips

Translations to be checked

Playing cards in English · playing cards (layout · text)
ace deuce, two three, trey four, cater five, cinque six seven
eight nine ten jack, knave queen king joker
  1. ^ Peter Morris,
      • A Game of Inches: The Stories Behind the Innovations That Shaped Baseball, 15.1.3 Rain Checks, pp. 411–412

cardinal number

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From Middle High German niun, from Old High German niun, from Proto-Germanic *newun. Cognate with German neun, Dutch negen, English nine, Icelandic níu.

nine

  1. (Alsace) nine

nine

  1. alternative form of nyn

nine

  1. female

Scots numbers (edit)

← 8 9 10 →
Cardinal: nine Ordinal: nint

From Middle English nyne, nine, from Old English nigon (“nine”), from Proto-West Germanic *neun, from Proto-Germanic *newun (“nine”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥ (“nine”).

nine

  1. nine

From Proto-Nguni *niná.

niné

  1. you, you all; second-person plural absolute pronoun.

possibly from baby talk. compare Persian ننه (“mother, grandmother”), Azerbaijani nənə (“grandmother”), Turkmen näne (“mother”) and Chinese 奶奶 (“paternal grandmother”).

nine (definite accusative nineyi, plural nineler)

  1. grandmother