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Latin name DECIMA means "tenth." In Roman mythology, the Decima are equated with the Greek Moirae.
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Female Version of Decimus; Tenth
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Tenth. This name was often given to the tenth child in large families.
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n.
One who decimates.
a.
Of or pertaining to decimals; numbered or proceeding by tens; having a tenfold increase or decrease, each unit being ten times the unit next smaller; as, decimal notation; a decimal coinage.
v. t.
To reduce to a decimal system; as, to decimalize the currency.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Decimate
n.
See Circulating decimal, under Decimal.
v. t.
To select by lot and punish with death every tenth man of; as, to decimate a regiment as a punishment for mutiny.
n.
A number expressed in the scale of tens; specifically, and almost exclusively, used as synonymous with a decimal fraction.
n.
That part of a circulating decimal which recurs continually, ad infinitum: -- sometimes indicated by a dot over the first and last figures; thus, in the circulating decimal .728328328 + (otherwise .7/8/), the repetend is 283.
imp. & p. p.
of Decimate
a.
Not decimable, or liable to be decimated; not liable to the payment of tithes.
a.
Of or pertaining to the meter as a standard of measurement; of or pertaining to the decimal system of measurement of which a meter is the unit; as, the metric system; a metric measurement.
n.
The decimal part of a logarithm, as distinguished from the integral part, or characteristic.
n.
The decimal point; the dot placed at the left of a decimal fraction, to separate it from the whole number which it follows. The term is sometimes also applied to other marks of separation.
n.
A basis for a numeral system; as, the decimal scale; the binary scale, etc.
n.
A number or quantity which is arbitrarily made the fundamental number of any system; a base. Thus, 10 is the radix, or base, of the common system of logarithms, and also of the decimal system of numeration.
v. t.
To destroy a considerable part of; as, to decimate an army in battle; to decimate a people by disease.
adv.
By tens; by means of decimals.
n.
A fixed compensation or equivalent given instead of payment of tithes in kind, expressed in full by the phrase modus decimandi.
n.
The system of a decimal currency, decimal weights, measures, etc.
n.
One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed at regular intervals, as in numeration, in the extraction of roots, and in circulating decimals.