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Meaning of tenths

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

tenths

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noun

Definitions

  1. The person or thing coming next after the ninth in a series; that which is in the tenth position.

  2. One of ten equal parts of a whole.

  3. The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third.

  4. (in the plural) A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject.