Definition of tenth in English:
tenth
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noun
1Constituting number ten in a sequence; 10th.
‘the tenth century’- ‘the tenth of September’
- ‘the tenth-floor locker room’
- ‘I love that he held a party to celebrate his tenth anniversary of being with Nigella.’
- ‘In the tenth century, small numbers of Irish and Scots settled on Iceland, bringing Christianity with them.’
- ‘We didn't go out on Saturday for our tenth wedding anniversary as Josie was still really sick.’
- ‘England in the ninth and tenth centuries was a rich, prosperous, fertile land - and almost entirely unprotected.’
- ‘At the tented encampment, visitors were able to chat to Viking families as they cooked using authentic tenth century ingredients.’
- ‘The album comes with a bonus CD featuring a video of the title track plus footage from the duo's tenth anniversary concert at London's Royal Albert Hall.’
- ‘It was party time as the airport marked the tenth anniversary of the opening of the new terminal - and there was plenty for those present to celebrate.’
- ‘Colombia ranks between fifth and tenth annually as a foreign oil supplier to the US.’
- ‘The council is the lowest spending unitary council per head of population and had the tenth lowest council tax in the United Kingdom.’
- ‘The date was August tenth, and Liz and Colin would be married in two days.’
- ‘I was tenth in the class at the beginning of the school year.’
- ‘In 1955, Delaware County ranked tenth in the nation for milk production on more than 2,000 farms.’
- ‘She would be tenth of twenty acts to perform that night.’
- ‘On this tenth anniversary, we owe it to them to remember.’
- ‘But archaeologists found a Saxon upright loom weight dating back to the eighth and tenth centuries.’
- ‘Hundreds of green-draped coffins were ready for burial today, marking this tenth anniversary of the genocide.’
- ‘Coming up, we will have more looks back and looks ahead here from Los Angeles on this tenth anniversary of the riots.’
- ‘Our democracy's tenth anniversary will coincide with an election year.’
- ‘Sridhara is now believed to have lived in the ninth and tenth centuries.’
- ‘Next year will be the tenth anniversary of Jack's passing but, in part because of folks like the ones on the panel, it feels like he's still around.’
- 1.1a tenth/one tenthEach of ten equal parts into which something is or may be divided.‘a tenth of a second’
- ‘In this exercise, the U.S. population is divided into tenths and represented by 10 students.’
- ‘Aren't you supposed to divide the bill into tenths?’
- ‘Yeah, your final grade was seven tenths of a percent higher than mine.’
- ‘On the oval, a half tenth of a second is a lot in this series, and then you get into traffic and lose a second or two.’
- ‘Bill Blass dresses one tenth of one percent of the American woman.’
- ‘Bates College had only $106,000 in endowment per student, less than one tenth of Grinnell's.’
- ‘One of those things you have to try once, just to see how the other tenth of the population lives.’
- ‘You know, it was built for about a tenth of the population that it has now.’
- ‘But as the tenths of seconds passed, out of the corner of my eye I saw him struggling.’
- ‘My coach hoisted me up above the crowd and informed me that I had broken Scott's record by five tenths of a second.’
- ‘By using it, I've learned that my swing on the course is two tenths of a second quicker than on the practice range.’
- ‘This post will probably self destruct in three tenths of a second.’
- ‘Over that same period, the poorest tenth of Asia's population saw median income rise by 58 percent.’
- ‘‘Not a tenth of the destitute population could be supplied’, writes Ms. Smith.’
- ‘The Labour party comprises seven tenths of the population and we're out to re-shape the world.’
- ‘The insects weigh less than one tenth of an ounce (two grams), but eat their weight in food each day.’
- ‘She came into my workplace the other day, and she was halfway friendly, but it wasn't even one tenth of the warmth she used to radiate towards me.’
- ‘As a result, ‘we spend a great deal of time documenting every tenth of an hour, just like we're lawyers,’ he says.’
- ‘The Patriot's control system kept track of time by counting tenths of a second; to convert the count into full seconds, the computer multiplied by 1 / 10.’
- ‘If one divides the screen into 10 vertical strips of equal width, the first tenth on the left was the only part of the picture in focus.’
- 1.2US The tenth grade of a school.‘Most small villages have nursery schools and ‘middle’ schools that go up to eighth grade and sometimes tenth.’
- ‘The only time I had ever seen Belinda cry previously was when I was in ninth grade, she was in tenth, and her dad had died.’
- 1.3Music An interval or chord spanning an octave and a third in the diatonic scale, or a note separated from another by this interval.
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