decimal
adjective
pertaining to tenths or to the number 10.
decimally
-
a word derived from
decimal.
Example Sentences
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In the following table are given the sizes of tapping drills, to give full threads, the diameters being practically but not decimally correct:— Diameterof tap.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
This was to be the unit, and divided decimally.
From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by William Arthur Shaw
One of these series simply adopts Italian numerals decimally.
From The Number Concept Its Origin and Development by Levi Leonard Conant
The Prussian pound of 500 grms., decimally divided, is substituted for the previous standard of 233.865 grms. 2-6.
From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by William Arthur Shaw
The French, say they, have in theory a decimally graduated scale, yet they always reckon by francs, and cents, which are 100ths of francs; the intervening decime being ignored in practice.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 428 Volume 17, New Series, March 13, 1852 by William Chambers
