place value

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noun Arithmetic.

the value of the place, or position, of a digit in a number or series: In the number 794, the location of the digit 4 has a place value of one.

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How to use place value in a sentence

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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But there's a ton of value for me in my background and my history, and losing it would be a shame.
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A place that has multiplied success for generation after generation of its children.
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Other things being equal, the volume of voice used measures the value that the mind puts upon the thought.
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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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Of course the expression of this value is modified and characterized by the nature of the thing spoken of.
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The associations of place recall her strange interview with Mr. Longcluse but a few months before.
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British Dictionary definitions for place value

place-value

adjective

denoting a series in which successive digits represent successive powers of the base

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