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English Dictionary: tenth by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tenth
adj
  1. coming next after the ninth and just before the eleventh in position
    Synonym(s): tenth, 10th
n
  1. a tenth part; one part in ten equal parts [syn: {one- tenth}, tenth, tenth part, ten percent]
  2. position ten in a countable series of things
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tenth \Tenth\, a. [From {Ten}: cf. OE. tethe, AS. te[a2][?]a.
      See {Ten}, and cf. {Tithe}.]
      1. Next in order after the ninth; coming after nine others.
  
      2. Constituting or being one of ten equal parts into which
            anything is divided.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tenth \Tenth\, n.
      1. The next in order after the ninth; one coming after nine
            others.
  
      2. The quotient of a unit divided by ten; one of ten equal
            parts into which anything is divided.
  
      3. The tenth part of annual produce, income, increase, or the
            like; a tithe. --Shak.
  
      4. (Mus.) 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.
  
      5. pl. (Eng. Law)
            (a) 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.
            (b) (Eccl. Law) The tenth part of the annual profit of
                  every living in the kingdom, formerly paid to the
                  pope, but afterward transferred to the crown. It now
                  forms a part of the fund called Queen Anne's Bounty.
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