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one tenth

one tenth numeral: a minuscule amount, in comparison to something or someone else. Also the rare spelling of one-tenth.

Numeral

one tenth

  1. A minuscule amount, in comparison to something or someone else.
    • He wanted to be one tenth the man and the Spacer M'tai had been – or any of those great pioneers.1998, CD Moulton, Robert Cole Todd/Space Services Collector's edition, page 3
    • You are a physical man, and in the best sense of being a man, you are not one tenth the man my brother was.2013, John Dann MacDonald, A Purple Place for Dying, page 93

Also used as

one tenth is also the rare spelling of one-tenth.

Questions about one tenth

What does one tenth mean?
One tenth means a minuscule amount, in comparison to something or someone else.
What part of speech is one tenth?
One tenth is a numeral.

Words near one tenth in the dictionary

  1. one swallow doesn't a spring make
  2. one swallow doesn't a summer make
  3. one swallow doesn't make a spring
  4. one swallow doesn't make a summer
  5. one swell foop
  6. one tenth
  7. one that goes the other way
  8. one thing after another
  9. one thing and another
  10. one thing leads to another
  11. one thing led to another

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