one-tenth
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- noun
- /wʌn tɛnθ/
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décima parte
- The cake was divided into ten equal pieces, and she only ate one-tenth of it.
- only one-tenth
- one-tenth of one percent
- one-tenth the size
Examples
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According to a survey by HEC, a French business school, one-tenth of French businesses use the service.
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But the North refuses to commit itself even to one-tenth of this amount.
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Just one-tenth of a second...
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The reason for that is not just that Canada has one-tenth as many people as the United States.
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Only one tenth of it is salvageable.
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Less than one-tenth of the actual wave spectrum.
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When organized by gender, the pie chart shows that roughly one-tenth of the faculty members are female.
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Opponents of that effort never exceeded one-tenth of the public and were often a much smaller proportion than this.
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In the past 10 years, more than one-tenth of the town's residents have immigrated to Clearwater.
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Its bond-market capitalization totals a bit over $3 trillion, barely one-tenth that of the United States.
Academic text (2012)
Synonyms
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One part in every ten of a total amount
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One equal part when something is divided into ten parts
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One of ten equal parts of a whole
One of ten equal parts of money that people give as a tax or church payment
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Etymology
One-tenth starts with one and tenth, so it literally means 'one of ten'. The tenth part comes from an old word for 'ten', seen in familiar words like decimal and decade, so one-tenth is one equal part out of ten.