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tenth 1. coming after the ninth in numbering or counting order, position, time, etc.; being the ordinal number of ten: often written 10th 2. a. one of 10 approximately equal parts of something b. (as modifier): a tenth part 3. one of 10 equal divisions of a particular measurement, etc. 4. the fraction equal to one divided by ten (1/10) 5. Music a. an interval of one octave plus a third b. one of two notes constituting such an interval in relation to the other How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| When I wish to rise to the level of the sea, I only let off the water, and empty all the reservoirs if I want the Nautilus to emerge from the tenth part of her total capacity. As to the line of separation between external and internal taxes, this would leave to the States, at a rough computation, the command of two thirds of the resources of the community to defray from a tenth to a twentieth part of its expenses; and to the Union, one third of the resources of the community, to defray from nine tenths to nineteen twentieths of its expenses. On the last Saturday in April, the New York "Times" published an account of the strike complications which were delaying Alexander's New Jersey bridge, and stated that the engineer himself was in town and at his office on West Tenth Street. |
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