The Collaborative International Dictionary
one-tenth \one-tenth\ n. a tenth part.
Syn: tenth, tenth part, ten percent.
WordNet
n. a tenth part; one part in ten [syn: tenth, tenth part, ten percent]
Usage examples of "one-tenth".
Hours elapsed in seconds as a trio of coursers swept into the system at nearly one-tenth the speed of light.
I mean, I could rent a power washer, buy the paint, a sprayer, dropcloths and stirrers and everything and still wind up spending one-tenth what a housepainter was asking.
A group of forty psychiatrists who studied the project predicted one-tenth of one per cent.
And, if breeder reactors were used - in which fuel is recycled time and time again - only one-tenth of the natural uranium would be needed.
Ake asked, staring at a lavishly garbed Skinnerite, apparently none the worse for having to contribute one-tenth of his gross earnings to the Prophet of the One.
Flying journalists hovered in hastily hired helicopters a few hundred feet above, their televisors recording the horror below, broadcasting agony and pathos in extravagant adjectives not one-tenth so moving as the photographic reality depicted on the screens of a hundred million telenews receivers.
Even the cavalier treatment that he received from Peverel could not daunt him, since he scarcely recognised it, So here he was, not exactly on one knee, but charmingly bent before her, offering her himself, his future title, his vast fortune and approximately one-tenth of the entire acres of England, Wales and Scotland.
Long afterwards when I had been the means of getting him cinque for a poem one-tenth the length, he spoke of the payment to me.
She'd like to go into town, but that's an expensive part of the Street to visit, and she'd be dumping money into the coin slot about every one-tenth of a millisecond.
This is the drainage basin of the Congo River, and one-tenth of the continent is given over to it—.
A watch is the duty period of a sentry: one-tenth of the night, or approximately one hour and 15 minutes.
As the distance between the start and finish lines is 10 miles, the car should cover this distance in one-tenth of an hour, or six minutes.
I never was one-tenth the fool that Spielman was, with his flunking Compassion, and his Honor, and his Dignity of Studentdom!
As a consequence of being food producers instead of hunter-gatherers, New Guineans lived at much higher average population densities than Australians: New Guinea has only one-tenth of Australia's area but supported a native population several times that of Australia's.
Three daycycles after she reached the mine, about one-tenth of a Lunar day, the disaster happened.