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[des-uh-muhl, des-muhl]

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adjective

pertaining to tenths or to the number 10.

proceeding by tens: a decimal system.

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noun

decimal fraction.

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Origin:
1600–10; < Medieval Latin decimālis of tenths, equivalent to Latin decim(a) tenth (derivative of decem ten) + -ālis -al¹

Related forms

dec·i·mal·ly, adverb

Can be confused: decimal, decimate, destroy (see usage note at decimate; see synonym note at destroy).

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Example Sentences

Many brokerage firms have also made the decimal transition in the statements sent to customers.

Their paychecks certainly have bigger numbers before the decimal point.

The investment consultants earn their reward for scrutinising, down to the decimal point, how well various managers have done.

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Many brokerage firms have also made the decimal transition in the statements sent to customers.

Their paychecks certainly have bigger numbers before the decimal point.

The investment consultants earn their reward for scrutinising, down to the decimal point, how well various managers have done.

We measure out microliter volumes and picogram weights with decimal point precision.

Basically, the decimal module lets you tell python how many digits to use in the calculations.

Storage manufacturers often quote capacity using the decimal system.

We used bottle caps to understand the decimal system.

Bridget is no whiz at maths, but she knows the calorific value of an olive to within a decimal point.

All you've done is convert the difference in ppm to a decimal percentage of atmospheric volume.

The same three or four teams clogged the top of the leaderboard, inching forward decimal by agonizing decimal.

Under a decimal system, share prices would be expressed in pennies, further narrowing price spreads.

But it only goes to show that imperialism does still outweigh decent and decimal democracy.

Vendicar, you've misplaced a decimal point or something in your calculations.

The coordinates were accurate to five decimal places.

For now, you can use those decimal fractions only for comparison purposes.

Interesting that in the table the numbers in country column are listed with one decimal.

Their real parts and their imaginary parts can be either positive or negative and either numbers or decimal expansions.

Leaving aside contingency-fee snakes, the rest of us snakes sell our services by the hour, usually in decimal increments.

Given how contrived this decimal is, you might suppose irrationality is rare.

The numbers that appear when a computer fouls up while converting from decimal to binary, and vice versa.

Tom got so much into them, he even explored them in other bases besides decimal.

Pi is an irrational number and as such the decimal expansion does not terminate nor does it repeat.

Penner's comic talents was that they came to the square root of zero, extended to the fifth decimal point.

Benson, the court denied a patent on a system for converting binary-coded-decimal numbers into decimal numbers.

However, it would not make it impossible, unless the division of the electoral votes were carried into several decimal places.

They track their grade-point averages to multiple decimal places and have longer résumés than their parents.

Metric nomenclature follows the same order, but measurements are in decimal form instead of fractions, and indicate millimeters.

Wilzig's plans, but missed a decimal point in the price tag.

When you get to that level, you need to be really precise, and a missed decimal makes a difference.

But you cannot weigh something to the infinitesimal number of decimal places, parts in a billion.

Prices entered with decimal points will be rounded up to the nearest whole number.

It is easy to misplace a decimal point, a tenfold error.

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World English Dictionary

decimal (ˈdɛsɪməl)

—n
1.	Also called: decimal fraction a fraction that has a denominator of a power of ten, the power depending on or deciding the decimal place. It is indicated by a decimal point to the left of the numerator, the denominator being omitted. Zeros are inserted between the point and the numerator, if necessary, to obtain the correct decimal place
2.	any number used in the decimal system

—*adj*
3.	a. relating to or using powers of ten
	b. of the base ten
4.	(prenominal) expressed as a decimal

[C17: from Medieval Latin decimālis of tithes, from Latin decima a tenth, from decem ten]

'decimally

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

decimal

c.1600, from M.L. decimalis "of tithes or tenths," from L. decimus "tenth," from decem "ten" (see ten). Applied to Arabic notation before modern sense of "decimal fractions" emerged.

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Science Dictionary

decimal

(děs'ə-məl) Pronunciation Key

A representation of a real number using the base ten and decimal notation, such as 201.4, 3.89, or 0.0006.
A decimal fraction.

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