decimals

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.

Example Sentences

The beam of the balance is generally graduated into decimals.

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The dropping of terminal decimals makes a small decimal difference in the result in the different formulas.

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The numbers clustering round them were mostly very small, with decimals.

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He gives it as 158 square inches, the only instance I have come across of his use of decimals.

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No good to go on sitting here with Soames or perhaps his daughter recurring in front of them, like decimals.

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