The New Year gives us the opportunity to explore the number eleven. What does it mean? And what unusual words and expressions incorporate eleven?
The word derives from the Old English endleofan, which means “one left,” as in “one left over ten.”
This literal sense is found in the colloquial expression “the eleventh hour,” which is used to talk about doing something at the last possible moment.
Is there really a word for a snack eaten at 11 in the morning? In fact, there is. In England, the term “elevenses” refers to a mid-morning snack, such as biscuits with a cup of tea. The Spanish term las onces, “the elevens,” also refers to a refreshment taken around 11.
The word “elevenses” was used in America as well. It referred to the now abandoned custom of a pre-noon whiskey break.
Eleven is the smallest positive integer requiring three syllables in English, and it is also the largest prime number with a single-morpheme name in this language
In Maths:
· Eleven is the 5th smallest prime number. It is the smallest two-digit prime number in the decimal base
· Eleven is a Størmer number, a Heegner number, and a Mills prime.
In science:
· The atomic number of sodium.
· In chemistry, Group 11 includes the three coinage metals copper, silver, and gold known from antiquity
· The number of spacetime dimensions in M-theory.
In Astronomy:
· Apollo 11 was the first manned spacecraft to land on the Moon.
· The approximate periodicity of a sunspot cycle is 11 years.
· The 11th moon of Jupiter is Himalia.
In Sport:
· There are eleven players on a soccer team on the field at a time as well as in a cricket team.
· There are eleven players in a field hockey team. The player wearing 11 will usually play on the left-hand side, as in soccer.
· An American football team also has eleven players on the field at one time during play.
In computing:
· In Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Konqueror for KDE, and Internet Explorer 4 [3] for Windows, the function key F11 key toggles full screen viewing mode. In Mac OS X, F11 hides all open windows.
· The windowing system for Unix computers is known as X11.
· Computers of the PDP-11 series from Digital Equipment Corporation were informally referred to as "elevens".
Spiritual meaning of 11::
The number 11 is thought of as a "master" number in numerology because it is a double digit of the same number. When this occurs - the vibrational frequency of the prime number doubles in power. Meaning, the attributes of the Number One are doubled.
Therefore, the very basic and primary understanding of the Number One is that of new beginnings and purity. When we see this digit doubled as with the 11 - then these attributes double in strength.
Courtesy: Wikipedia, dicitionaty.com
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