tenthadj/tɛnθ/

• 1

  The ordinal numeral form of ten; next in order after that which is ninth.

  • My dear young lady, here I am for the tenth time.
  • These words are formed by the rusty iron point with which I write with difficulty in scrapings of soot and charcoal from the chimney, mixed with blood, in the last month of the tenth year of my captivity.
• 2

  Being one of ten equal parts of a whole.

  • The Ephah and the Bath shal be of one measure, that the Bath may containe the tenth part of an Homer, and the Ephah the tenth part of an Homer: the measure thereof shall be after the Homer.

tenthnoun/tɛnθ/

• 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.

  • Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
• 3

  entertainmentlifestylemusicThe 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

  historicallawA 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.

• 5

  engineeringmachiningmechanical-engineeringA tenth of a mil; a ten-thousandth of an inch.

tenthverb/tɛnθ/

• 1

  To divide by ten, into tenths.

  • A regular cistern may be inched or tenthed by the rule given for inching or tenthing the back, copper, or cooler, which inching or tenthing should be entered in a table book for use.