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• plural of decimal.

decimals

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1. Fractional numbers (see fraction) expressed as whole numbers of tenths, hundredths, thousandths, and so on. One-half, for example, is 0.5 in decimal terms.

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Example Sentences

Locate Decimals on the Number Line In the following exercises, locate the number on the number line.

From Textbooks • Apr. 22, 2020

The Rules of Practice, Interest, and performed in the more facil manner by Decimals, then hitherto hath been published; the excellency and new practice and use of Logarithmes, Nepayres Bones.

From The Compleat Cook Expertly Prescribing the Most Ready Wayes, Whether Italian, Spanish or French, for Dressing of Flesh and Fish, Ordering Of Sauces or Making of Pastry by M., W.

Lat., or apparent hourly Amount of Rotation of Horizon, in Degrees and Decimals.

From Notes and Queries, Number 80, May 10, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Table of the English Cubical Inches and Decimals corresponding to a determinate Troy Weight of Distilled Water at the Temperature of 55°, calculated from Everard's experiment.

From Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Lavoisier, Antoine

On the very day when he and I were being initiated into the mysteries of Decimals, he whispered to me in class, "I say, I wonder how people found out the weight of the planets."

From All Men are Ghosts by Jacks, L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall)