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tenth | ten |

Ten is a related term of tenth.



As nouns the difference between tenth and ten

is that tenth is the person or thing in the tenth position while ten is the number following nine.

As an adjective tenth

is the ordinal form of the number ten.

As a numeral ten is

a numerical value equal to 10; the number occurring after nine and before eleven, represented in Roman numerals as X, in Arabic numerals (and base ten) as 10, and in the hexadecimal system (base 16) as A.

tenth

English

(wikipedia tenth)

Adjective

(-)
  • The ordinal form of the number ten.
  • Synonyms

    10th, 10th; (in names of monarchs and popes ) X

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The person or thing in the tenth position.
  • One of ten equal parts of a whole.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
  • (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.
  • (UK, legal, 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.
  • (Webster 1913)

    See also

    tithe English ordinal numbers

    ten

    English

    (wikipedia ten)

    Numeral

    (head)
  • (cardinal) A numerical value equal to ; the number occurring after nine and before eleven, represented in Roman numerals as X, in Arabic numerals (and base ten) as 10, and in the hexadecimal system (base 16) as A.
  • Noun

  • (uncountable) The number following nine.
  • (countable) ( ) The card between the nine and jack in a given suit.
  • (countable) A monetary denomination worth ten units.
  • (countable, US, slang) A superb specimen.
  • # (countable, slang) A beautiful or sexy person; a person whom one gives the highest possible rating on a 1-to-10 scale of attractiveness.
  • See also

    *

    Derived terms

    (Derived terms) * five-and-ten * five will get you ten * hang ten * ten a penny * ten-cent/ten-cent store * ten-eighty * ten foot pole * ten-four * ten-gallon hat * ten o'clock/ten-o'clock * ten-pin/ten-pin bowling * ten pound tourist * ten-pounder * ten-speed * top ten * Ten Commandments

    Synonyms

    * (Roman numerals): X

    Coordinate terms

    ** Previous : nine () ** Next : eleven ()

    See also

    * deca-