Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The number ten; in a Pythagorean or cabalistic sense, as an element of the universe, the tetractys or quaternary number.
- noun A set of ten objects; ten considered as a whole or unit.
- noun Specifically A period of ten consecutive years.
- noun In music, a group of ten tones, having precise acoustical relations with one another, arranged so as to explain and correct problems in harmony and modulation.
- noun A division of a literary work containing ten parts or books.
- noun Same as
decad ring .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A decade.
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- noun Archaic form of
decade .
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Examples
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Corrections made to printed original. page 300, "The duad represented the line" - original reads 'decad', making no sense in view of what follows.
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The allocation section of the Waxman Markey bill, also called the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES), aims to distribute permits representing our national greenhouse gas emissions for decad ...
Mike Sandler: Free Allowances to Utilities Are Not Dividends to Consumers 2009
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The allocation section of the Waxman Markey bill, also called the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES), aims to distribute permits representing our national greenhouse gas emissions for decad ...
Mike Sandler: Free Allowances to Utilities Are Not Dividends to Consumers 2009
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American passenger trains have lagged behind those in Europe and Asia for decad ...
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American passenger trains have lagged behind those in Europe and Asia for decad ...
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To express the numbers '11' through '16', Etruscans used the numerals of the first decad followed by the word for '10' which is śar.
A possible relationship between 'four' and 'eight' in PIE 2008
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In Gvozdanović's Indo-European Numerals, Robert Coleman suggests an assimilation of *k with preceding voiced resonants in some decad words like 'seventy' or 'ninety'.
Something that bugs me about Indo-European's higher decads 2008
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Ynet reports today, In the last decad, sic kosher food sales in American supermarkets have reached a growth rate of 15 percent as opposed to a four percent growth rate for food that is not kosher.
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Ynet reports today, In the last decad, sic kosher food sales in American supermarkets have reached a growth rate of 15 percent as opposed to a four percent growth rate for food that is not kosher.
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The Theology of Arithmetic may have been most influential in its attempt to set up an equivalence between the pagan gods and the numbers in the decad, which was picked up later by Iamblichus and Proclus (Kahn 2001, 116).
Pythagoreanism Huffman, Carl 2006
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