Penultimate means the next before last.
For example: 2, 4, 12, 56, 4. The penultimate number is 56.
The penultimate month of the year is November.
It means: not the last one, but the one before the last one.A single word with the same meaning is penultimate.
last but one, second to last, one before the last, next to last
To find the penultimate digit of 99!, we first note that 99! has many factors of 10 due to the number of multiples of 5 and 2 present in the product. Specifically, there are 24 trailing zeros in 99!, which means the last two digits are 00. Therefore, the penultimate digit of 99! is 9, as the last two digits are 00.
The pre-penultimate element of the series.
She wasn't the last but she was the penultimate.
One before the (anything) last
If there were eight stanzas (verses [sic]) then the second to last one would be the sixth stanza.
The penultimate month of the year is November.
The ISBN of The Penultimate Peril is 0064410153.
The Penultimate Truth was created in 1964.
"Pen-" is the prefix for the word "penultimate."
penultimate is one...
One before the (anything) last
The penultimate boss is the boss before the last boss.
It basically just means the 'second to last' one. For example if i was to say, "it was the penultimate episode of the series", I'm basically saying that the episode was the second to last episode in the series.
The penultimate perril has 150 pages for the nook