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Meaning of decades

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decades

noun

Definitions

  1. A group, set, or series of ten , particularly:

    Example: a decade of soldiers

  2. A set of resistors, capacitors, etc. connected so as to provide even increments between one and ten times a base electrical resistance.

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

    Example: There are decades between 1.8 and 18, between 25 and 250 and between 0.03 and 0.003.