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# tenth

«tenth» in Mova's school dictionary: **Tenth comes after ninth in order: number 10** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

number, adjective, noun (tenth, tenths)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Tenth comes after ninth in order: number 10. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tenth/#m1)

2) A tenth is one of ten equal parts of a whole, written 1/10 or 0.1. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tenth/#m2)

3) The tenths place is the first digit after the decimal point. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tenth/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Maths: an order position (the tenth day) or a fraction (one tenth = 0.1); one tenth of a total means divide by 10; decimals: 0.3 is 3 tenths. Everyday: tenth birthday, tenth floor, «a tenth of a second» in races.

### examples

- She came tenth in the race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tenth/#x1)
- One tenth of the 50 apples were bad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tenth/#x2)
- On the tenth day he finished the book. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tenth/#x3)
- 3 tenths is written 0.3. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tenth/#x4)
- He won by a tenth of a second. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tenth/#x5)
- In 4.7, the 7 is in the tenths place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tenth/#x6)
- My tenth birthday party was at the zoo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tenth/#x7)
- On the tenth day all is still, and he enters the castle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tenth/#x8)

### note

Written 10th. As a fraction: one tenth of a total means divide by 10. As an order word it gives a position, not an amount. Trap: «tenths» (0.1) is not «tens» (10).

### In the corpora

- [A school backpack should weigh no more than about a tenth to a seventh of your body weight.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/3-lifting-and-carrying/19/)
- [On his tenth birthday Corey sits by the phone all afternoon, cake untouched.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/517-the-parent-who-left-and-a-new-partner/0/)
- [At Christmas dinner Uncle Mike says "Bulls hate red!" for the tenth year running, and half the family groans.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/32-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground/0/)
- [Tithing is the old practice of giving a tenth of one's income to God's work.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/27-sunday-school-youth-groups-and-charity/15/)
- [About seven tenths of the Earth's surface is covered by water.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/7-shape-and-size-of-the-earth/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tenth» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tenth/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.