tenth

[ tenth ]

/ tɛnθ /

adjective

next after ninth; being the ordinal number for ten.

being one of ten equal parts.

noun

one of ten equal parts, especially of one (1/10).

the member of a series preceding the eleventh and following the ninth.

Music.

a tone distant from another tone by an interval of an octave and a third.
the interval between such tones.
the harmonic combination of such tones.

Also called tenth's place. (in decimal notation) the position of the first digit to the right of the decimal point.

adverb

in the tenth place; tenthly.

Origin of tenth

before 1150; Middle English tenthe, Old English. See ten, -th², tithe

Words nearby tenth

tentative, tented, tenter, tenterhook, tenterhooks, tenth, tenth amendment, tenth commandment, tenth cranial nerve, tenthly, tentie

Example sentences from the Web for tenth

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

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

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

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

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

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And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho.

The Bible for Young People |Anonymous
Even in a century, the loss of heat at this rate would be only the tenth of a degree.

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And did he now sit himself down zealously and perseveringly to work on a ninth and tenth symphony?

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"Your entire allegiance and a tenth of your income," he went on.

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Or we may imagine a long chain, with a pendant attached to each tenth or one-hundredth link.

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British Dictionary definitions for tenth

tenth

/ (tɛnθ) /

adjective

(usually prenominal)

coming after the ninth in numbering or counting order, position, time, etc; being the ordinal number of ten: often written 10th
(as noun)see you on the tenth; tenth in line

noun

one of 10 approximately equal parts of something
(as modifier)a tenth part

one of 10 equal divisions of a particular measurement, etc decibel Related prefix: deci-

the fraction equal to one divided by ten (1/10)

music

an interval of one octave plus a third
one of two notes constituting such an interval in relation to the other

adverb

Also: tenthly after the ninth person, position, event, etc

sentence connector

Also: tenthly as the 10th point: linking what follows with the previous statements, as in a speech or argument

Word Origin for tenth

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

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