Decade

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decade

1. a period of ten consecutive years

2. a group or series of ten

decade [de′kād]

(electricity)

A group or assembly of 10 units; for example, a decade counter counts 10 in one column, and a decade box inserts resistance quantities in multiples of powers of 10.

(science and technology)

The interval between any two quantities having the ratio of 10 to 1.

Decade

(1) A ten-day period. During the French Revolution, the week was replaced by the decade.

(2) A group of ten—in antiquity, a group of soldiers, for example.

(3) A ten-day period of time devoted to some social event or special occasion—for example, a decade of Ukrainian literature or a decade of Azerbaijani music.

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No references found			He can correct his author at a dozen points and estimate the value of these warnings by the standard of a decade of realities. The War in the Air by Wells, H.G. View in context Once in every decade there shall be a general settlement, when the balance due shall be paid to the creditor nation in Mexican dollars. Fantastic-Fables by Bierce, Ambrose View in context Preposterous by any reasonable standard, Lyly's style, 'Euphuism,' precisely hit the Court taste of his age and became for a decade its most approved conversational dialect. A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context			Debye force Debye frequency Debye length Debye potentials Debye relaxation time Debye Shielding Distance Debye shielding length Debye specific heat Debye T3law Debye Temperature Debye theory Debye, Peter Debye, Peter Joseph Wilhelm Debye-Falkenhagen effect Debye-Hückel screening radius Debye-Hückel theory Debye-Jauncey scattering Debye-Scherrer Method Debye-Sears ultrasonic cell Debye-Waller factor DEC DEC Alpha DEC Wars deca- decaborane Decade decade box decade bridge decade counter decade scaler Decadence Decadents decagon decahedron decahydrate decahydronaphthalene decal decalcification Decalcomania decalescence Decalin decaliter decalitre Decalogue Decameron Decameron, The decameter decametre decametric wave Decamps, Alexandre Gabriel Decane			Dec. 8 Dec. 8 Deca DECA Commissary Information System Deca Durabolin Deca Durabolin DECA Interim Business System deca Newton deca- deca- deca- Deca-Durabolin Decaare Decabecquerel Decabecquerel Decabecquerel Decaborane Decaborane(14) Decabromobiphenyl Ether Decacerata Decachord Decacuminated Decad Decadal Decadal Decadal Climate Prediction System Decadal to Centennial Variability Decadal to Multidecadal Decadarchy Decadary Decade decade box decade bridge decade counter Decade Counting Unit Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction Decade of Disturbed Decade of Education for Sustainable Development Decade of Human Rights Education Decade of the Brain Decade of the Mind decade scaler decadelong decadence decadence decadence Décadence Décadence Décadence decadency decadency decadent decadent decadent decadent person decadently decadently Decadents Decadents Decadents Decaderm

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