decimal place

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noun

the position of a digit to the right of a decimal point; a specific number of digits to the right of the decimal point in a line of numbers.

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Words nearby decimal place

decimal classification, decimal currency, decimal fraction, decimalize, decimal notation, decimal place, decimal point, decimals, decimal system, decimate, decimated

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How to use decimal place in a sentence

While the addition of a single decimal place had little effect on overall strategy, the tactics — that is, precisely how many phalanxes to place at each of the castles that got you 28 points — was a new front in the battle.
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That willingness to take the client backstage was more compelling than any number of decimal places.
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The world that Black Dynamite lives in is not the most PC place to be in.
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“This is the only place in the souk you can buy safety pins,” he said.
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He hasn't bothered to visit Iguala, the place where the students were abducted and killed.
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A place that has multiplied success for generation after generation of its children.
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The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents.
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This is the place where the Muscovite criminals are banished to, if they are not put to death.
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He looked strangely out of place in the dusty combat uniform.
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The associations of place recall her strange interview with Mr. Longcluse but a few months before.
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As Spain, however, has fallen from the high place she once held, her colonial system has also gone down.
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Give a sweet savour, and a memorial of fine flour, and make a fat offering, and then give place to the physician.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various

British Dictionary definitions for decimal place

decimal place

noun

the position of a digit after the decimal point, each successive position to the right having a denominator of an increased power of tenin 0.025, 5 is in the third decimal place

the number of digits to the right of the decimal point3.142 is a number given to three decimal places Compare significant figures (def. 2)

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Scientific definitions for decimal place

decimal place

The position of a digit to the right of the decimal point in a number written in decimal notation. In 0.079, for example, 0 is in the first decimal place, 7 is in the second decimal place, and 9 is in the third decimal place.