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  1. one-tenth, tenth, tenth part, ten percentnoun

    a tenth part; one part in ten equal parts

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  1. one-tenth

    One-tenth is a fraction that represents 1 out of 10 equal parts of a whole. It is written as 1/10 and it can also be represented as 10 percent or 0.1 in decimal form.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of one-tenth in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of one-tenth in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of one-tenth in a Sentence

  1. Daniel DaleWealth taxesWarren:

    I have proposed a two-cent wealth tax on the top one-tenth of one percent in this country, that would give us enough money to start with our babies by providing universal child care for every baby age 0 to 5, universal pre-k for every 3-year-old and 4-year-old in this country.

  2. Vice President Biden:

    I'm not being a wise guy about the wall and the President, all that, for real, my word, but instead of building more barriers, if it's drugs you're talking about, we can take one tenth of the amount of money we're talking about building the wall and significantly increase the technological capability at legal ports of entry because that's where 95 % of all the stuff is coming through.

  3. Fethullah Gulen:

    If there is anything I told anyone about this verbally, if there is any phone conversation, if one-tenth of this accusation is correct ... I would bend my neck and would say, 'They are telling the truth. Let them take me away. Let them hang me,'.

  4. Lawrence Summers:

    Suppose this required testing every American every week and that each test cost $20, the $6.6billion price tag would be less than one-tenth of the weekly cost of the Cares Act.

  5. Energy Daniel Nocera:

    The (land) footprint these solar panels need is about one tenth the size of what you would need for sugar cane.


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