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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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The beam of the balance is generally graduated into decimals.
Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I|Arnold Cooley
The dropping of terminal decimals makes a small decimal difference in the result in the different formulas.
Aviation Engines|Victor Wilfred Pag
The numbers clustering round them were mostly very small, with decimals.
The Riddle of the Sands|Erskine Childers
He gives it as 158 square inches, the only instance I have come across of his use of decimals.
Makers of British Botany; a collection of biographies by living botanists|Various

No good to go on sitting here with Soames or perhaps his daughter recurring in front of them, like decimals.
The Forsyte Saga, Volume III.|John Galsworthy

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