Meanings of twelfth part in English

Picardy lost a twelfth part of its population; many large cities were almost abandoned.

Let it be remembered, that this was above a twelfth part of his pension.

Not the twelfth part of the tea was consumed.

To the widow he allowed half-a-guinea a week, the twelfth part, as Boswell observes, of his pension.

The entire mixture is then again heated to 252 degrees Fahrenheit and one-fifteenth to one- twelfth part of sulphur is added.

In this way a good deal of the ash pit refuse is got rid of; it is often one- twelfth part of the whole quantity.

The population of the Union, by the Census of 1790, was 3,929,827, of which Maryland, containing then 319,728, constituted a twelfth part (12.29).

Human Creatures cannot so probably treat of other sorts of Creatures, as of their own The Twelfth Part.