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tenth

[ tenth ]

adjective

  1. next after ninth; being the ordinal number for ten.
  2. being one of ten equal parts.


noun

  1. one of ten equal parts, especially of one (1/10).
  2. the member of a series preceding the eleventh and following the ninth.
  3. Music.
    1. a tone distant from another tone by an interval of an octave and a third.
    2. the interval between such tones.
    3. the harmonic combination of such tones.
  4. Also called tenth's place. (in decimal notation) the position of the first digit to the right of the decimal point.

adverb

  1. in the tenth place; tenthly.

tenth

/ tɛnθ /

adjective

  1. usually prenominal
    1. coming after the ninth in numbering or counting order, position, time, etc; being the ordinal number of ten: often written 10th
    2. ( as noun )

      see you on the tenth

      tenth in line

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noun

    1. one of 10 approximately equal parts of something
    2. ( as modifier )

      a tenth part

  1. one of 10 equal divisions of a particular measurement, etc deci-

    decibel

  2. the fraction equal to one divided by ten ( 1 10 )
  3. music
    1. an interval of one octave plus a third
    2. one of two notes constituting such an interval in relation to the other
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adverb

  1. Alsotenthly after the ninth person, position, event, etc
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sentence connector

  1. Alsotenthly as the 10th point: linking what follows with the previous statements, as in a speech or argument
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Word History and Origins

Origin of tenth1

before 1150; Middle English tenthe, Old English. See ten, -th 2, tithe
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Word History and Origins

Origin of tenth1

C12 tenthe, from Old English tēotha; see ten , -th ²
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Example Sentences

Four floor sensors allow it to accurately measure your weight to a tenth of a pound regardless of your foot position on the scale.

It’s easy to see how, by the tenth draft of that Madagascar correction, he’d have utterly confused himself.

In 1992, an object about a tenth as wide as Pluto was seen orbiting out beyond it.

It was very comfortable, especially after a few washes, and barely looked different on the exterior after tenth load.

That is a tenth of the number of quantum gates that were previously thought necessary to solve the model.

From Fortune

In 2014 only a tenth as many tourists came as had come the year before.

How to Train Your Dragon 2, the tenth highest grossing movie in 2014 America, made $22 million at the Korean box office.

But today, five years later, there are less than a tenth that number serving in those two countries.

This would outfit less than one tenth of police officers nationwide but gets the idea circulating.

Buffalo ranked tenth in the nation, while Detroit and Pittsburgh ranked twelth and thirteenth, respectively.

The amount of the other purin bodies together is about one-tenth that of uric acid.

But while the tenth man still labors, the machine, though creaking with its dislocation, can still go on.

I noticed that you had set her crying again, Lucy, for about the tenth time to-day.

It was a good supper, and, in the highest of spirits, nine of the guerrillas sat down; the tenth was on guard.

On the tenth of the said month it was washed, and a small grain of gold was obtained that weighed one-half real.

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