ONE-TENTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does one-tenth mean? 

• ONE-TENTH (noun)
  The noun ONE-TENTH has 1 sense:

1. a tenth part; one part in ten equal parts

  Familiarity information: ONE-TENTH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ONE-TENTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tenth part; one part in ten equal parts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

one-tenth; ten percent; tenth; tenth part

Hypernyms ("one-tenth" is a kind of...):

common fraction; simple fraction (the quotient of two integers)

 Context examples 

This is less than half the distance between Earth and our moon and less than one-tenth the distance of any known comet flyby of Earth.

(Mars Spacecraft Reveal Comet Flyby Effects on Martian Atmosphere, NASA)

Earlier attempts to estimate the total mass of objects beyond Neptune have only added up to around one-tenth the mass of the Earth.

(Mystery orbits in outermost reaches of solar system not caused by ‘Planet Nine’, University of Cambridge)

The metric unit of mass equal to one-tenth of a gram.

(Decigram, NCI Thesaurus)

During the day's events, the smallest distance between Siding Spring's nucleus and Mars will be less than one-tenth the distance of any known previous Earthly comet flyby.

(Mars spacecraft prepare for close comet flyby, NASA)

The systems showed similar time delays – about one-tenth of a second — between when NuSTAR first detected X-ray light and ULTRACAM detected flares in visible light slightly later.

(NuSTAR Probes Black Hole Jet Mystery, NASA)

She said I was like Mr. Rivers, only, certainly, she allowed, "not one-tenth so handsome, though I was a nice neat little soul enough, but he was an angel."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

At the time of closest approach, 2014 RC will be approximately one-tenth the distance from the center of Earth to the moon, or about 40,000 kilometers.

(Small Asteroid to Safely Pass Close to Earth Sunday, NASA)

To Fermi, this appeared to be a typical short gamma-ray burst, but it occurred less than one-tenth as far away as any other short burst with a known distance, making it among the faintest known.

(NASA Missions Catch First Light from a Gravitational-Wave Event, NASA)