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TENTH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A tenth part; one part in ten equal parts
Synonyms:
one-tenth; ten percent; tenth; tenth part
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("tenth" is a kind of...):
common fraction; simple fraction (the quotient of two integers)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Position ten in a countable series of things
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("tenth" is a kind of...):
rank (relative status)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Coming next after the ninth and just before the eleventh in position
Synonyms:
10th; tenth
Classified under:
Similar:
ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)
Context examples:
M-class flares are a tenth the size of the most intense flares, the X-class flares.
(Solar Dynamics Observatory Captures Images of a Mid-Level Solar Flare, NASA)
This is less than half the distance between Earth and our moon and less than one-tenth the distance of any known comet flyby of Earth.
(Mars Spacecraft Reveal Comet Flyby Effects on Martian Atmosphere, NASA)
The medial margin of the thorax created by the seventh to tenth rib.
(Costal Arch, NCI Thesaurus)
A prefix indicating a quantity of a tenth, 10E-1.
(Deci, NCI Thesaurus)
About every tenth bird species — ca. 800 species — in the world hunts under water, and it may turn out that they too can also hear under water.
(Marine Birds Can Hear Under Water, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The metric unit of length equal to one tenth of a meter.
(Decimeter, NCI Thesaurus)
The device is made out of soft materials that are a tenth the diameter of a human hair and can simultaneously deliver drugs and lights.
(Futuristic brain probe allows for wireless control of neurons, NIH)
Earlier attempts to estimate the total mass of objects beyond Neptune have only added up to around one-tenth the mass of the Earth.
(Mystery orbits in outermost reaches of solar system not caused by ‘Planet Nine’, University of Cambridge)
The tenth version of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), published by the World Health Organization in 1992.
(International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, NCI Thesaurus)
They learned his secrets in the Scholomance, amongst the mountains over Lake Hermanstadt, where the devil claims the tenth scholar as his due.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
