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tenth

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tenth  (tnth)
n.
1. The ordinal number matching the number ten in a series.
2. One of ten equal parts.

[Middle English tenthe, alteration of tethe, from Old English totha; see tithe.]

tenth adv. & adj.

tenth
Adjective, n
See ten
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Noun1.tenthtenth - a tenth part; one part in ten equal parts
common fraction, simple fraction - the quotient of two integers
2.tenth - position ten in a countable series of things
rank - relative status; "his salary was determined by his rank and seniority"
Adj.1.tenthtenth - coming next after the ninth and just before the eleventh in position
ordinal - being or denoting a numerical order in a series; "ordinal numbers"; "held an ordinal rank of seventh"
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tenth [tɛnθ] adjdécimo
tenth [tɛnθ] numdixième
tenth [tɛnθ] numzehnte(r, s)
nZehntel nt
tenth [tɛnθ] numdecimo/a

tenth ten

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When I wish to rise to the level of the sea, I only let off the water, and empty all the reservoirs if I want the Nautilus to emerge from the tenth part of her total capacity.
As to the line of separation between external and internal taxes, this would leave to the States, at a rough computation, the command of two thirds of the resources of the community to defray from a tenth to a twentieth part of its expenses; and to the Union, one third of the resources of the community, to defray from nine tenths to nineteen twentieths of its expenses.
On the last Saturday in April, the New York "Times" published an account of the strike complications which were delaying Alexander's New Jersey bridge, and stated that the engineer himself was in town and at his office on West Tenth Street.
 
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