TENTH PART

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tenth part mean? 

• TENTH PART (noun)
  The noun TENTH PART has 1 sense:

1. a tenth part; one part in ten equal parts

  Familiarity information: TENTH PART used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TENTH PART (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tenth part; one part in ten equal parts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

one-tenth; ten percent; tenth; tenth part

Hypernyms ("tenth part" is a kind of...):

common fraction; simple fraction (the quotient of two integers)

 Context examples 

Here is a young man of sense, of character, of temper, of manners, and of fortune, exceedingly attached to you, and seeking your hand in the most handsome and disinterested way; and let me tell you, Fanny, that you may live eighteen years longer in the world without being addressed by a man of half Mr. Crawford's estate, or a tenth part of his merits.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)