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n. (context arithmetic English) the position of a digit to the right of the decimal point in a decimal number.
Usage examples of "decimal place".
He had but to see more deeply, make a few more abstractions from reality, refine his observations another decimal place, and the veil would be torn aside, the mystery comprehended by his senses.
The decision to round down to two decimal places reflects a decision that the accuracy of a third decimal place is excessive.
Nevertheless, the third decimal place is there, whether one chooses to express it or not.
I had reached some sort of final decimal place -- I simply didn't care.
Quite suddenly, something appears in the third, second, first decimal place —.
Now there was only a single line on the screen, a deep, intense orange, the two orbital simulations overlapping to the last decimal place.
The pulse-burst and scrambler timing were calculated again to the 5th decimal place.
I don't know just where it was you dropped a decimal place, but what you just said is crazy as a barbed wire canoe.
A difference in thrust down in the seventh or eighth decimal place could make a big difference in arrival time, multiplied over twenty-four years.