Definition

1. Noun:

   • A shellac-based phonograph record that played at 78 revolutions per minute: A specific type of early, brittle audio recording format.
   • The cardinal number that is the sum of seventy and eight: The natural number following seventy-seven and preceding seventy-nine; 78.

2. Adjective:

   • Being eight more than seventy: Describing a quantity of exactly seventy-eight items or units.

Examples of Usage

• Noun (Record):

  • My grandfather has a collection of old seventy-eights from the 1920s.
  • Before vinyl LPs, music was primarily released on seventy-eight records.

• Noun (Number):

  • The answer to the equation is seventy-eight.
  • There are seventy-eight cards in a traditional tarot deck.

• Adjective:

  • She bought seventy-eight apples for the event.
  • The temperature reached seventy-eight degrees.

Advanced Usage

• "78 rpm": This abbreviation (revolutions per minute) is often used interchangeably with "seventy-eight" when referring to the record format.
  • He specializes in restoring 78 rpm records.

Variants and Related Words

• 78 (n): The numerical or abbreviated form.
  • The song was first released as a 78.
• LXXVIII: The Roman numeral for seventy-eight.

Synonyms

• For the number: four score minus two (archaic/poetic).
• For the record: 78 rpm, shellac record, phonograph record (general).

Related Phrases

• "Like a broken record": An idiom meaning to repeat something annoyingly and persistently. While not specific to a seventy-eight, it originates from the era of physical records where a scratch could cause a phrase to repeat.
  • He keeps complaining about the same thing; he sounds like a broken record.

Noun

1. a shellac based phonograph record that played at 78 revolutions per minute
2. the cardinal number that is the sum of seventy and eight

Adjective

1. being eight more than seventy