tenth
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
tenth (not comparable)
- The ordinal numeral form of ten; next in order after that which is ninth.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, “The Substance of the Shadow”, in A Tale of Two Cities, book III (The Track of a Storm), London: Chapman and Hall, […], OCLC 906152507 ↗, page 214 ↗:
- These words are formed by the rusty iron point with which I write with difficulty in scrapings of soot and charcoal from the chimney, mixed with blood, in the last month of the tenth year of my captivity.
- Being one of ten equal part#Noun|parts of a whole.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Ezekiel 45:11 ↗:
- The Ephah and the Bath shal be of one measure, that the Bath may containe the tenth part of an Homer, and the Ephah the tenth part of an Homer: the measure thereof shall be after the Homer.
- French: dixième (before the noun); (in names of monarchs and popes) dix (after the name) (abbreviation X)
- German: zehnte
- Italian: decimo (before the noun); (in names of monarchs and popes) decimo, decima (after the name) (abbreviation X)
- Portuguese: décimo
- Russian: деся́тый
- Spanish: décimo
tenth (plural tenths)
- The person or thing coming next after the ninth in a series; that which is in the tenth position.
- One of ten equal parts of a whole.
- (music) The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third.
- (UK, legal, historical, in the plural) A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject.
- (one of ten parts) decim, decima, decimate, tithe, titheling, tithing (all obs.)
- (musical interval or note) decima (obs.)
tenth (tenths, present participle tenthing; past and past participle tenthed)
- To divide by ten, into tenths.
- 1832 The Practical Measurer, Containing the Uses of Logarithms, and Gunter's Scale ↗
- A regular cistern may be inched or tenthed by the rule given for inching or tenthing the back, copper, or cooler, which inching or tenthing should be entered in a table book for use.
- 1832 The Practical Measurer, Containing the Uses of Logarithms, and Gunter's Scale ↗
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