Search for crossword answers and clues
Mark, fractionally wrong on medical tip
Answer for the clue "Mark, fractionally wrong on medical tip ", 13 letters:
decimal point
Word definitions for decimal point in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the dot at the left of a decimal fraction [syn: percentage point ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Decimal \Dec"i*mal\, a. [F. d['e]cimal (cf. LL. decimalis), fr. L. decimus tenth, fr. decem ten. See Ten , and cf. Dime .] Of or pertaining to decimals; numbered or proceeding by tens; having a tenfold increase or decrease, each unit being ten times ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context arithmetic English) A point (.) used to separate the fractional part of a decimal from the whole part. 2 (context arithmetic English) A decimal mark, any symbol used to separate the fractional part of a decimal from the whole part. 3 (context ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Forbes can apparently spout the results of all presidential elections to the nearest decimal point . ▪ The decimal point is introduced after every three digits; for example, 631.589.2 Hydroponics. ▪ The cursor is on the decimal ...
Usage examples of decimal point.
This is an irrational square root, a decimal fraction with an endless series of non-repeating digits after the decimal point.
He stuck a decimal point at the beginning of the array of zeros and ones, viewing the sequence as an infinite binary fraction that paraphrased the extraterrestrials' natural number system, the ones representing composite integers, the zeros designating primes.
Drop a decimal point or use a short cut that covers up an indeterminancy and it's just too bad.
And if that other object happens to be a ship, with its own navigational control system, then the chance of collision contains such a string of zeroes after the decimal point that no rational person should worry about it.
Waterhouse writes it down in the European style (day of the month first, then month) as 06081945, then lops off the leading zero to get 6,081,945--a pure quantity, an integer, unmarred by decimal point, rounding error, or any of the other compromises so abhorrent to number theorists.
A starship traveling within one hundred millionth of one percent of the speed of lightninety-nine percent followed by a decimal point and eight more ninesmultiplied its mass some seventy thousand times.
Add another nine after the decimal point and the spaceship multiplied its mass by a factor of approximately two hundred and twenty-four thousand.
On a slide rule such a problem takes forty seconds, most of it to get your decimal point correct.
The decimal point was still giving him trouble when we heard a rider galloping up from behind.
When I checked his results, I came across an exponent with a misplaced decimal point.