The word "tenth" serves as an ordinal number, referring to the item that follows ninth in a series, and also as a fraction representing one part of ten equal divisions.
The word "tenth" is an ordinal number meaning the one after ninth, and also a fraction representing one out of ten equal parts.
[ORD 序数词]第十 The tenth item in a series is the one that you count as number ten.
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[FRACTION 分数词]十分之一 A tenth is one of ten equal parts of something.
We received only two tenths of an inch of rain during the entire month of June.
整个 6 月,我们这里的降水量只有0.2英寸。
Oxford
tenth★/tenθ; NAmEtenθ/
ordinal number
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noun
tenthtenthsordinal number★10th 第十HELPThere are examples of how to use ordinal numbers at the entry for fifth.序数词用法示例见 fifth 条。noun★each of ten equal parts of sth 十分之一IDIOMsee
possession
tenth/tenθ; NAmEtenθ/
LDC
tenth1 adjective
tenth2 noun
tenthtenth1 /tenθ/ ●●●S3W3 adjective
Examples
word sets
Collocations
coming after nine other things in a series: in the tenth century her tenth birthday—tenth pronoun: I’m planning to leave on the tenth (=the tenth day of the month).
tenth1 adjective
tenth2 noun
tenthtenth2 noun [countable]
Examples
one of ten equal parts of something
WDF
tenth
[tenθ]
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Spoken:
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第十(54%),十分之一(46%)
num.第十;十分之一
adj.十分之一的;第十个的
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