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multidecadal

multidecadal adjective: involving multiple decades.

Adjective

multidecadal (not comparable)

  1. Involving multiple decades
  2. Lasting or spanning multiple decades
    • But distributed big science in this case consists of missions (also called projects) that make up an extended, multidecadal program of exploration2014, W. Henry Lambright, Why Mars: NASA and the Politics of Space Exploration, →ISBN

Forms of multidecadal

alternative formmulti-decadal

Origin of multidecadal

From multi- + decadal.

Questions about multidecadal

What does multidecadal mean?
Multidecadal means involving multiple decades.
What part of speech is multidecadal?
Multidecadal is an adjective.

Words near multidecadal in the dictionary

  1. multidata
  2. multidate
  3. multiday
  4. multidaylight
  5. multideath
  6. multidecadal
  7. multidecade
  8. multideck
  9. multidecked
  10. multidefendant
  11. multideficiency

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