Tenth can mean:
- 10th, an ordinal number; as in the item in an order ten places from the beginning, following the ninth and preceding the eleventh.
- 1/10, a fraction, one part of a unit divided equally into ten parts. It is written 0.1 in decimal notation.
- the SI prefix deci-
- tithe
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Famous quotes containing the word tenth:
“They say all lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“In his tenth July some instinct
taught him to arm the waiting wave,
a giant where its mouth hung open.
He rode on the lip that buoyed him there
and buckled him under.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; maybe you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)