tenth

Definitions

1. The ordinal numeral form of ten; next in order after that which is ninth
2. The person or thing coming next after the ninth in a series; that which is in the tenth position.
3. Being one of ten equal parts of a whole
4. One of ten equal parts of a whole.
5. The person or thing coming next after the ninth in a series; that which is in the tenth position
6. 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.
7. One of ten equal parts of a whole
8. 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.
   UK, historical, in-plural
9. 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
10. A tenth of a mil; a ten-thousandth of an inch.

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“Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point⟳ every month.”

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