tenth /tɛnθ/noun 5adjective 2verb 1forms 3 noun5 •The person or thing coming next after the ninth in a series; that which is in the tenth position. •One of ten equal parts of a whole. •A tenth of a mil; a ten-thousandth of an inch. •The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third. •[in the plural] (UK, historical) A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject. adjective2 •The ordinal numeral form of ten; next in order after that which is ninth.My dear young lady, here I am for the tenth time. — 1776 •Being one of ten equal parts of a whole.The Ephah and the Bath shal be of one measure, that the Bath may containe the tenth part of an Homer, and the Ephah the tenth part of an Homer: the measure thereof shall be after the Homer. — 1611 verb1 •To divide by ten, into tenths.A regular cistern may be inched or tenthed by the rule given for inching or tenthing the back, copper, or cooler, which inching or tenthing should be entered in a table book for use. — 1832 formstenthed · tenthing · tenths
