Definition of "tenth" in English

adjective

1. The ordinal numeral form of ten; next in order after that which is ninth.

2. Being one of ten equal parts of a whole.

noun

1. The person or thing coming next after the ninth in a series; that which is in the tenth position.

2. One of ten equal parts of a whole.

3. (music) 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.

4. (UK, law, historical, in the plural) 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.

5. (machining) A tenth of a mil; a ten-thousandth of an inch.

verb

1. To divide by ten, into tenths.