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Word: Decade
Speech Type: Noun
late Middle English (denoting each of ten parts of a literary work): via Old French and late Latin from Greek deka ‘ten’. decade (sense 1) dates from the early 17th century
ˈdɛkeɪd
dɪˈkeɪd
a period of ten years
Short Definition:period of ten years
Examples:- he taught at the university for nearly a decade
each of the five divisions of each chapter of the rosary
Short Definition:part of the rosary
Examples:- a local priest led the mourners in a decade of the rosary
a range of electrical resistances, frequencies, or other quantities spanning from one to ten times a base value
Short Definition:range of electrical resistances etc.
Examples:- power per decade of frequency
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