decade

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A group, set, or series of ten , particularly

   “a decade of soldiers”

2. isim A period of ten years , particularly such a period beginning with a year ending in 0 and ending with a year ending in 9.

   “The 1960s was a turbulent decade.”

3. isim A period of ten days, particularly those in the ancient Egyptian, Coptic, and French Revolutionary calendars.

   “The year was divided up into twelve months renamed after the seasons [...]; each month comprised three ‘decades’ of ten days – with the décadi replacing Sundays as a day of rest; and each day was reconsecrated to a natural product or farming tool or technique.”

4. isim A work in ten parts or books, particularly such divisions of Livy's History of Rome.
5. isim 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.
6. isim Any of the sets of ten sequential braille characters with predictable patterns.
7. isim A set of ten electronic devices used to represent digits.
8. isim A set of resistors, capacitors, etc. connected so as to provide even increments between one and ten times a base electrical resistance.
9. isim The interval between any two quantities having a ratio of 10 to 1.

   “There are decades between 1.8 and 18, between 25 and 250 and between 0.03 and 0.003.”