Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to or comprising ten; consisting of tens.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Pertaining to ten; consisting of tens.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to the number ten, a group of ten things, or to a decade

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Examples

  • Dr. Stern makes a good point on the biasing effects that underpriced, pre-definition phase, program estimates lead to when members of external planning bodies use them to develop the priorities in decadal plans.

    MSL Cost Overruns: More Smoke and Mirrors from NASA - NASA Watch 2008

  • If the oceans dampen short term decadal solar cycle variation, then how can you state in the conclusions that there is no solar input over the last 20 years?

    Unthreaded #14 « Climate Audit 2007

  • I wonder how long it will take for normally intelligent and rational well educated people to become obsessed over the offhand remarks of moon hoax conspiracy theorists, while simultaneously neglecting (or even worse, fostering) the long term decadal downward social, political and educational trends which have created a fertile environment for the intellectual ignorance and apathy allowing nutty theories to prosper, and scientifically valid and interesting speculative theories like extraterrestrial life and ET visitation to be ridiculed.

    Apollo Landing Site Images - NASA Watch 2009

  • Osborn and Briffa quote Jones and Mann as having a "decadal" correlation of 0.52 for the PC1.

    Bristlecones, Foxtails and Temperature « Climate Audit 2006

  • Jones et al 1998 Table 4 shows "decadal" correlations which are supposedly measuring "low frequency" effects.

    Jones et al [1998]: Gridcell Correlations « Climate Audit 2005

  • I mean, you can talk about that stuff, and you can write these large reports, and you can get government money to do it, but these -- they actually measured it, and it turns out that in the last 10 years -- that's why they say "decadal" there -- that the energy -- that the level of what they call "imbalance" has been way the hell over what was expected.

    Kary Mullis on what scientists do 2002

  • I mean, you can talk about that stuff, and you can write these large reports, and you can get government money to do it, but these -- they actually measured it, and it turns out that in the last 10 years -- that's why they say "decadal" there -- that the energy -- that the level of what they call "imbalance" has been way the hell over what was expected.

    Kary Mullis on what scientists do 2002

  • I mean, you can talk about that stuff, and you can write these large reports, and you can get government money to do it, but these -- they actually measured it, and it turns out that in the last 10 years -- that's why they say "decadal" there -- that the energy -- that the level of what they call "imbalance" has been way the hell over what was expected.

    Kary Mullis on what scientists do 2002

  • If “climate” is defined as the decadal mean temperature, then this year’s cold winter will push the decadal mean lower.

    Climate Vs. Weather Video | Universe Today 2010

  • What other little understood factors (such as decadal ocean currents), are inaccurately represented in the IPCCs much vaunted computer models?

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009

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