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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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[n] - a period of 10 years Found op http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=decade
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Ten times any quantity or frequency range. The range of the human ear is about 3 decades. Found op http://www.diracdelta.co.uk/science/source/d/e/decade/source.html
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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 de... Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/D/13
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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 Te... Found op http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?decade
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decennary noun a period of 10 years Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=decade
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• (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. Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/decade/
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(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-d... Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/d/21
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[disambiguation] A decade is a period of ten years. Decade or Decades may also refer to: == Music == == Other uses == ... Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decade_(disambiguation)
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[log scale] One decade is a factor of 10 difference between two numbers (an order of magnitude difference) measured on a logarithmic scale. It is especially useful when referring to frequencies and when describing frequency response of electronic systems, such as audio amplifiers and filters... Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decade_(log_scale)
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[solitaire] Decade also known by the name of Ten-Twenty-Thirty is a Patience game played with a traditional 52 card deck that is akin to another solitaire game called Accordion. Like Accordion, it is traditionally played with the cards in a line. Because of its minimal use of space, it can a... Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decade_(solitaire)
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A decade is a period of 10 years. The word is derived (via French) from the Ancient Greek dekas which means ten. This etymology is sometime confused with the Latin decas (ten) and dies (days), which is not correct. The other words for spans of years come from Latin: lustrum (5 years), century (100 ... Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decade
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[Neil Young album] Decade is a triple album compilation by Neil Young, released in 1977, now available on two compact discs. It contains 35 of Young`s songs recorded between 1966 and 1976, among them five tracks that had been unreleased up to that point. It peaked at #43 on the Billboard Top... Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decade_(Neil_Young_album)
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decade
- a period of 10 years
- the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system
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a traditional unit of quantity equal to 10. Also called the decad. In medieval English this unit was anglicized as the dicker (see below). Found op http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictD.html
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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. Howe... Found op http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictD.html
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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. Found op http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictD.html
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Decade is sometimes used for the number ten, or for an aggregate of ten. The books of Livy's Roman history are divided into decades. In the French revolution, decades, each consisting of ten days, took the place of weeks in the division of the year. The term is now usually applied to an aggregate of... Found op http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/AD.HTM
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[Live at the El Mocambo] Decade (Live at the El Mocambo) is the first live CD/DVD from the Ontario post-hardcore band Silverstein, released on June 8, 2010. On April 23, 2010, the band announced through their official Facebook page that the live album was to be released on June 8, 2010. It w... Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decade_(Live_at_the_El_Mocambo)
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[play] Decade is a 2011 play by Tony Kushner, John Logan and Paul Laverty commemorating the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Its structure is drawn from the work of the choreographer Pina Bausch and it involves a cast of 12. It is to première in St Katharine Docks (the site of... Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decade_(play)
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1) 1921 to 1931 2) Century segment 3) Decennary 4) Decennium 5) Half a score 6) Historical span 7) History chapter 8) History division 9) Period 10) Period of time 11) Retrospective segment 12) Score half 13) ... Found op http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/crossword-dictionary/decade/1
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