Tenth

Quick meaning: Tenth is an adjective meaning The ordinal numeral form of ten; next in order after that which is ninth.

Meaning

The ordinal numeral form of ten; next in order after that which is ninth.

More Meanings

1. Being one of ten equal parts of a whole.
2. The person or thing coming next after the ninth in a series; that which is in the tenth position.
3. One of ten equal parts of a whole.
4. (machining) A tenth of a mil; a ten-thousandth of an inch.
5. To divide by ten, into tenths.
6. (music) The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third.
7. (UK, law, historical, in the plural) A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject.

Example Sentences

My dear young lady, here I am for the tenth time.

A regular cistern may be inched or tenthed by the rule given for inching or tenthing the back, copper, or cooler, which inching or tenthing should be entered in a table book for use.

The Ephah and the Bath shal be of one measure, that the Bath may containe the tenth part of an Homer, and the Ephah the tenth part of an Homer: the measure thereof shall be after the Homer.

These words are formed by the rusty iron point with which I write with difficulty in scrapings of soot and charcoal from the chimney, mixed with blood, in the last month of the tenth year of my captivity.

Word Forms

• tenths
• tenthing
• tenthed

Synonyms for tenth

Depending on context, synonyms include tithe, X, decim, decima, decimate, titheling.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include one-tenth, ordinal, eleventh, dozen, ten, sixteenth.

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