Alternative form of four score and seven years ago

(idiomatic, often humorous) Used (sometimes sarcastically) to indicate that a past event being mentioned is particularly important: a long time ago; many years ago.

One must not give up one's efforts, even those that are in vain

(informal) Of about seventy years of age.

The ordinal form of the number seventy-two, describing a person or thing in position number 72 of a sequence. / Lasting seventy seconds.

One of seventy-two equal parts of a whole.

By a factor of seventeen. / Having seventeen parts.

By a factor of seventeen.

(genetics) A gene in Drosophila melanogaster that encodes a receptor tyrosine kinase protein essential to the development of R7 cells in the embryonic eye.

(film) The making of motion pictures; filmmaking.