Look up: Decade

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   decade
   [Noun] Plural form: decades. A length of time equal to ten years.
   Example: In the last decade there have been big changes in fashion and music.
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   decade
   [n] - a period of 10 years
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   Decade
   Ten times any quantity or frequency range. The range of the human ear is about 3 decades.
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   decade
   a group of ten items; for example, a group of ten storage locations Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers) • interval consisting of ten consecutive years sometimes used in the study of meteorological elements. Category: The cosmos • destroys four decades of microbes by gram of antibiotic cream. Category: Medicine
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   Decade
   Definition (keystage 2) Any period of ten years. <br /> People often speak of specific decades: eg the thirties, meaning those years from January 1st 1930 until December 31st 1939.
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   Decade
   Definition (keystage 3) Ten years.
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   Decade
   Dec'ade noun [ French décade , Latin decas , -adis , from Greek ..., from de`ka ten. See Ten .] A group or division of ten; esp., a period of ten years; a decennium; as, a decade of years or days; a decade of soldiers; the second decade of Livy. [ Written also decad .] « During this notable decade of years.» ...
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   decade
   A group or division of ten; especially, a period of ten years; a decennium; as, a decade of years or days; a decade of soldiers; the second decade of Livy. ... Alternative forms: decad] 'During this notable decade of years.' (Gladstone) ... Origin: F. Decade, L. Decas, -adis, fr. Gr, fr. Ten. See Ten. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998)
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   decade
   decennary noun a period of 10 years
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    Decade
    A `decade` is a set or a group of ten, commonly a period of 10 years in contemporary English, or a period of 10 days in the French revolutionary calendar. The word is derived from the late Latin `decas`, from Greek `dekas`, from deka. In contemporary English, the word can be used to specify a general period of ten years, for example `The last decade was characterized by the rise of the Internet`. A decade may also be a well-defined historical per...
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    Decade
    • (n.) A group or division of ten; esp., a period of ten years; a decennium; as, a decade of years or days; a decade of soldiers; the second decade of Livy.
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    décade
    (from the article `calendar`) The seven-day week was abandoned, and each 30-day month was divided into three periods of 10 days called décades, the last day of a décade being a ... ...into disuse after the Thermidorian Reaction. The Directory ordered in 1798 that décadi (the final day of the 10-day week, or dé...
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    decade
    
    1. a period of 10 years
    2. the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system
    
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    decade
    a traditional unit of quantity equal to 10. Also called the decad. In medieval English this unit was anglicized as the dicker (see below).
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    decade
    a unit of time equal to 10 days or 1/3 month. The revolutionary governments in France (1790s) and the Soviet Union (1920s) tried to decimalize and secularize the calendar by eliminating the week (with its traditional day of religious observance) and substituting the decade. Both efforts failed. However, the decade survived as a unit of civil time i...
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    decade
    another name for the bel or the order of magnitude: a logarithmic unit used to compare the sizes of quantities. Two quantities differ by one decade if one is 10 times the other, by two decades if one is 10•10 = 100 times the other, and so on.
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