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decade | interdecadal |

As a noun decade

is period of ten days (such as the week in the ).

As an adjective interdecadal is

between decades; occurring over more than one decade.

decade

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A series or group of ten things.
    • a decade of soldiers
  • A period of ten years.
  • *
    • The repeated exposure, over decades , to most taxa here treated has resulted in repeated modifications of both diagnoses and discussions, as initial ideas of the various taxa underwent—often repeated—conceptual modification.
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , year=1979 , date=December , title=Museums , magazine=Texas Monthly , volume=7 , issue=12 , page=22 citation , passage=Thru May: 1920s — The Decade That Roared. New exhibition portraying historical events and everyday life during the Roaring Twenties.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-03
    • , author=David S. Senchina , title=Athletics and Herbal Supplements , volume=101, issue=2, page=134 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Athletes' use of herbal supplements has skyrocketed in the past two decades .}}
  • * 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 481:
    • The year was divided up into twelve months renamed after the seasons [...]; each month comprised three ‘decades ’ of ten days – with the décadi replacing Sundays as a day of rest; and each day was reconsecrated to a natural product or farming tool or technique.
  • (Roman Catholicism) A series of ten Hail Marys in the rosary.
  • (physics, engineering) The interval between any two quantities having the ratio 10 to 1.
    • There are decades between 1.8 and 18, between 25 and 250 and between 0.03 and 0.003.

    Usage notes

    Unlike centuries or millennia (which properly run from xxx1 to xxx0), decades are an informal unit generally taken to run from xxx0 to xxx9. That is, the first century began in the year 1 and ended in the year 100 but the Nineties are those years whose name includes the word "ninety": '90, '91, '92...

    Synonyms

    * (ten years)

    Related terms

    * decennial, decadal

    interdecadal

    English

    Alternative forms

    * inter-decadal

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Between decades; occurring over more than one decade.
  • * 1996 , National Research Council, Natural Climate Variability on Decade-to-Century Time Scales , page 259,
    • Thus the analysis of longer, high-resolution ice cores from the Canadian north could be quite revealing from the viewpoint of Arctic interdecadal variability.
  • * 1999 , National Research Council, Improving American River Flood Frequency Analyses , page 92,
    • Latif and Barnett's postulated mechanism is that self-sustained oscillations at interdecadal time scales can be set up through the influence of the subtropical ocean gyre on SST anomalies in the North Pacific and a subsequent delayed response of wind stress that spins down the gyre.
  • * 2004', Johnny C. L. Chan, ''10: Variations in the Activity of Tropical Cyclones over the Western North Pacific: From '''Interdecadal to Intraseasonal'', Richard J. Murnane, Kam-biu Liu (editors), ''Hurricanes and Typhoons: Past, Present, and Future , page 269,
    • This chapter describes variations in tropical cyclone activity over the western North Pacific on time scales from interdecadal to intraseasonal.
  • * 2010 , Kon-Kee Liu, Chun-Mao Tseng, Tzu-Ying Yeh, Li-Wen Wang, Elevated Phytoplankton Biomass in Marginal Seas in the Low Latitude Ocean: A Case Study in the South China Sea'', Wing-Huen Ip, Anil Bhardwaj (editors), ''Advances in Geosciences , Volume 19: Planetary Science (PS), page 101,
    • Therefore, there is a striking interdecadal variation of ENSO signal in the upper heat content anomalies of the tropical Pacific during the past 120 years from 1881–2000.

    Derived terms

    * interdecadal Pacific oscillation