tenth
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- noun
- /tɛnθ/
:
décima
- When organized by gender, the pie chart shows that roughly one-tenth of the faculty members are female.
- one-tenth
- nine-tenths
- a tenth of one percent
I I don't talk about even a tenth of all this stuff.
- I I don't talk about even a tenth of all this stuff.
- I've I try and wear for a day and I still can't get through, you know, a tenth of the collection.
- You know, you're, you know, photon hitting your eye to, you know, movement is, you know, on the order of a few tenths of a second kinds of of processing time.
- Then again, maybe waiting a few tenths of minutes before buying that thing I just clicked on wouldn't be such a bad idea.
Examples
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Ripe seahorse eggs are usually orange, pear-shaped, and about a tenth of an inch in diameter.
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She contributed a tenth of her monthly salary to charity.
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Maybe a tenth of the sky missing.
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And my son... if he would just give me a tenth of his time like he does his video games, I... I'd be all right.
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Women suffer more, so a quarter of women and a tenth of men will have treatment for depression.
Academic text (2011) -
That's less than a tenth of our revenue.
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France today has roughly four or five million Muslim inhabitants, nearly a tenth of the population.
Academic text (1996) -
According to a survey by HEC, a French business school, one-tenth of French businesses use the service.
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Only a tenth of the tickets for the concert were sold.
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During the meeting, he mentioned that less than a tenth of the team had completed the project.
Synonyms
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One part in every ten of a total amount
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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
Compounds
- Specialized
A nerve that helps control heart, breathing, voice, and how the body breaks down food
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Morphology
Etymology
Tenth can also mean one part of ten; it comes from the base ten and originally meant 'one of ten equal parts'. So a tenth is '1/10' of something, like one slice if you cut a cake into ten equal pieces.