decimal
A number expressed in the base-ten system, (particularly) a fractional numeral written in this system.
Adjective
- Concerning numbers expressed in decimal or mathematical calculations performed using decimal.
Origin
Borrowed from Late Latin, Medieval Latin decimalis, from Latin decimus, from decem (“ten”) + adjective suffix -alis.
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decimal comma decimal mark decimal reduction time decimal time
Noun
- A number expressed in the base-ten system, (particularly) a fractional numeral written in this system.
- What is ⁷⁄₂₃ as a decimal?
- The decimal system itself.
- A decimal place.
- Pi has a value of 3.142, to three decimals.
- A decimal point.
- Alternative spelling of dismil.
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- To represent with numbers after a decimal point.
- Single- decimaled entries, often originating in Whiting (Wh) or Wilson (OW; see p. 23, fn.3), are from SPL. To save space, examples cited in SPL are normally not repeated (examples therefore begin with "Add:"). Double-...
- simplified, substantively interpretable versions of the optimal (but many-decimaled) linear combinations of your original variables - 2001, Richard J. Harris, A Primer of Multivariate Statistics, page 54:
- So naturally, 3/14 – the 14th of March – is celebrated as “Pi Day.” And since 3.14 is the beginning, not the end of Pi – it can be decimaled on out to infinity – and since the next two numbers are 1 and 5 voila! today’s...
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base binary octal undecimal duodecimal hexadecimal vigesimal sexagesimal transdecimal
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binary decimal decimal arithmetic decimal candle decimal dozen decimaled decimal fraction decimalic decimalise decimalism decimalist decimalite decimalization decimalize decimally decimal without a zero dotted decimal hexatrigesimal heximal negadecimal nondecimal packed decimal pentadecimal postdecimal pre-decimal