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Entry 7 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Tenth

/(tĕnth)/ · IPA /tɛnθ/
01 a. Next in order after the ninth; coming after nine others.
  1. 1.
    Next in order after the ninth; coming after nine others.
  2. 2.
    Constituting or being one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided.
02 n. The next in order after the ninth; one coming after nine others.
  1. 1.
    The next in order after the ninth; one coming after nine others.
  2. 2.
    The quotient of a unit divided by ten; one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided.
  3. 3.
    The tenth part of annual produce, income, increase, or the like; a tithe.
  4. 4.
    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.(Mus.)
  5. 5.
    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.(Eng. Law)