decade
IPA: dɛkˈeɪd
noun
- A group, set, or series of ten
- A period of ten years , particularly such a period beginning with a year ending in 0 and ending with a year ending in 9.
- A period of ten days, (history) particularly those in the ancient Egyptian, Coptic, and French Revolutionary calendars.
- (literary, archaic) A work in ten parts or books, particularly such divisions of Livy's History of Rome.
- (Roman Catholicism) A series of prayers counted on a rosary, typically consisting of an Our Father, followed by ten Hail Marys, and concluding with a Glory Be and sometimes the Fatima Prayer.
- Any of the sets of ten sequential braille characters with predictable patterns.
- (electronics) A set of ten electronic devices used to represent digits.
- (electronics) A set of resistors, capacitors, etc. connected so as to provide even increments between one and ten times a base electrical resistance.
- (physics, engineering) The interval between any two quantities having a ratio of 10 to 1.
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Examples of "decade" in Sentences
- It is becoming the cliche of the decade.
- He seved as a diplomatisted for a decade.
- The Empress thrived throughout the decade.
- This is One of the masterpieces of the decade.
- The Soviets dominated the remainder of the decade.
- Baudelaire is associated with the Decadent movement.
- Maspero croaked in the second decade of the 20th century.
- The popularity of the perfume has spanned over several decades.
- Ten centuries later, Sarnath was at the zenith of its power and decadence.
- In the last decades of the century this trend towards sobriety intensified.
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