decimal
adjective
pertaining to tenths or to the number 10.
decimally
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a word derived from
decimal.
Example Sentences
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It agrees with the first in some of the present measures and weights, and with the last, in compounding and dividing them decimally.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
The pound of 500 grammes decimally subdivided, to be used as the basis of the coinage.
From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by William Arthur Shaw
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
Equally as fine gauges can be and are made for the inch as for the metric system, and the inch is decimally divided, but we require another decimal point to express our measurement.
From An Analysis of the Lever Escapement by H. R. Playtner
One of these series simply adopts Italian numerals decimally.
From The Number Concept Its Origin and Development by Levi Leonard Conant
