TENTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tenth mean? 

• TENTH (noun)
  The noun TENTH has 2 senses:

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

2. position ten in a countable series of things

  Familiarity information: TENTH used as a noun is rare.

• TENTH (adjective)
  The adjective TENTH has 1 sense:

1. coming next after the ninth and just before the eleventh in position

  Familiarity information: TENTH used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• 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 ("tenth" is a kind of...):

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Position ten in a countable series of things

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

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

rank (relative status)

• TENTH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coming next after the ninth and just before the eleventh in position

Synonyms:

10th; tenth

Similar:

ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)

 Context examples 

Mars, in a rare, once-in-two-year visit was touring your tenth house of honors, awards, and achievement and will continue to help your career until February 16.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Indeed, a tenth of this variation is due to genetic factors.

(Study finds that genes play a role in empathy, University of Cambridge)

The light from this object began travelling to us when the Universe was about a tenth of its current age.

(Ancient Galaxy Megamergers, ESO)

Brazil ranks tenth for preterm birth, with approximately 300 thousand premature babies every year—11.7% of the total births in the country.

(Early birth main cause of child death in Brazil, Agência Brasil)

The unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.

(Deciliter, NCI Thesaurus)

According to new research, the smallest nanodroplet of water in which ice can form is only as big as 90 water molecules — a tenth the size of the smallest virus.

(Scientists probe the limits of ice, National Science Foundation)

The designation for each member of the tenth largest human autosomal chromosome pair.

(Chromosome 10, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of amount of substance equal to one tenth of a mole (10E-1 mole).

(Decimole, NCI Thesaurus)

This is a little over one tenth the distance to the Moon and just above the orbital altitude of communications satellites.

(Asteroid Tracking Network Observes Close Approach, NASA)

The black hole was already billions of times the mass of our sun when our universe was only a tenth of its present age of 13.8 billion years.

(The Most Luminous Galaxy in Universe, NASA)