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:
“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)
“Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.”
—Bible: Hebrew Exodus, 20:17.
The tenth commandment.
“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)