tenth

Meanings

Plural: tenths

Noun

• a tenth part; one part in ten equal parts
• position ten in a countable series of things
• The person or thing coming next after the ninth in a series; that which is in the tenth position.
• One of ten equal parts of a whole.
• 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.
• 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.
• A tenth of a mil; a ten-thousandth of an inch.

Adjective Satellite

• coming next after the ninth and just before the eleventh in position

Adj

• The ordinal numeral form of ten; next in order after that which is ninth.
• Being one of ten equal parts of a whole.

Verb

• To divide by ten, into tenths.

Synonyms

10th, decim, decima, decimate, one-tenth, ten percent, tenth part, tithe, titheling, tithing, X, Xth

Anagrams of tenth