one tenth

numeral

A minuscule amount, in comparison to something or someone else.

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Meanings

numeral
  1. rarerare spelling of one-tenth.
  2. A minuscule amount, in comparison to something or someone else.

    He wanted to be one tenth the man and the Spacer M'tai had been – or any of those great pioneers.

    1998, CD Moulton, Robert Cole Todd/Space Services Collector's edition, page 3
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    You are a physical man, and in the best sense of being a man, you are not one tenth the man my brother was.

    2013, John Dann MacDonald, A Purple Place for Dying, page 93
Cite this entry
APA

one tenth. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/one%20tenth

MLA

“one tenth.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/one%20tenth. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “one tenth,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/one%20tenth.

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