decade
/ˈdɛkeɪd/ noun B2- A group, set, or series of ten , particularly · a decade of soldiers
- 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.· I haven’t seen my cousin in over a decade!
- A period of ten days, particularly those in the ancient Egyptian, Coptic, and French Revolutionary calendars.
- 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.
- A set of ten electronic devices used to represent digits.
- A set of resistors, capacitors, etc. connected so as to provide even increments between one and ten times a base electrical resistance.
- 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.
Plural decades
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In normal cases one can place a man in his true decade with tolerable confidence.
It would be a poor expert who could not give the date of a document within a decade or so.
My grandparents moved to London from Trinidad many decades ago.
Decades ago, independent food vendors sold their homemade meals directly on the streets.
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