Decimal is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DECIMAL in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a fraction whose denominator is some power of ten
• a fraction whose denominator is a power of ten and whose numerator is expressed by figures placed to the right of a decimal point
• the system of decimal numerical notation
• fraction written in the form of a dot followed by one or more numbers
• A number expressed in the scale of tens; specifically, and almost exclusively, used as synonymous with a decimal fraction.
• a proper fraction whose denominator is a power of 10
• a number in the decimal system
ADJECTIVE:
• relating to a tenth part
• relating to or denoting a system of numbers and arithmetic based on the number ten, tenth parts, and powers of ten
• relating to or denoting a system of currency, weights and measures, or other units in which the smaller units are related to the principal units as powers of ten
• Of or pertaining to decimals; numbered or proceeding by tens; having a tenfold increase or decrease, each unit being ten times the unit next smaller; as, decimal notation; a decimal coinage.
• numbered or proceeding by tens; based on ten
• relating to or using powers of ten

Words related to DECIMAL

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Words that contain DECIMAL

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How to use DECIMAL in a sentence

• It will occur to none to talk of French imitation because chemists make use of the excellent and universally applicable system of the decimal French weights and measures.
• An Argument for American Consistency in the Extension of the Decimal Scale to Weights and Measures, in Harmony with the National Currency.
• Its contents cannot be less in cubic feet and decimal parts than 392,878,125.
• I have little doubt that our nomenclature is a serious though unsuspected hindrance to the ready adoption by the public of a decimal system of weights and measures.
• The section numbers are decimal in the Table of Contents but are in Roman Numerals in the body.
• I proposed, therefore, instead of this, to adopt the Dollar as our unit of account and payment, and that its divisions and subdivisions should be in the decimal ratio.
• The Financier, therefore, in his report, well proposes that our Coins should be in decimal proportions to one another.
• It is not to be supposed that this was the common system of counting, for it is well known that the decimal scale was in use as far back as the evidence of language will take us.
• Each contains the decimal element also, and is, therefore, to be regarded as a mixed decimal-vigesimal system.
• The higher numerals in all these languages, and in Irish many of the lower also, are seen at a glance to be decimal.
• With this single exception the Albanian scale is of regular decimal formation.
• In nearly all the examples given the decimal becomes the leading element in the formation of all units above 100, just as was the case in the Celtic scales already noticed.
• A purely decimal system of coins would be an intolerable nuisance, because it would require a greatly increased number of small coins.
• To pay it in decimal coins, the same number of pieces are required.
• The dose should be five drops of the third decimal tincture with a spoonful of water every three or four hours.
• Ten drops of the diluted tincture, first decimal strength, should be given three or four times in the day, with a tablespoonful of cold water.
• From three to ten drops of the tincture diluted to the third decimal strength, should be given as a dose, and repeated at intervals, for the symptoms just recited.
• The decimal currency is extremely simple when once understood.
• Always worked everything out to the sixth decimal place.
• Very seldom will anything be gained by carrying the calculation beyond the second decimal place.
• Dewey, or Decimal system of classification, 79, 81-83.

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