decimal

Borrowed from Late Latin, Medieval Latin decimalis, from Latin decimus, from decem (“ten”) + adjective suffix -alis.

• (UK) IPA^(key): [ˈdɛsɪməɫ]
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛsɪməl/

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decimal (countable and uncountable, plural decimals)

1. (countable) A number expressed in the base-ten system, (particularly) a fractional numeral written in this system.

   What is 7/23 as a decimal?

2. (informal, uncountable) The decimal system itself.
3. (informal) A decimal place.

   Pi has a value of 3.142, to three decimals.

4. (informal) A decimal point.

• (number): See decimal number
• (system): See decimal system
• (place): See decimal place

• (fractional number): See fraction

• binary-coded decimal

• decimal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

decimal (not comparable)

1. (arithmetic, computing) Concerning numbers expressed in decimal or mathematical calculations performed using decimal.

• base-ten, denary (rare)

decimal (third-person singular simple present decimals, present participle decimaling, simple past and past participle decimaled)

1. to represent with numbers after a decimal point
   • 1984 Robert William Dent, Proverbial Language in English Drama Exclusive of Shakespeare, 1495-1616: An Index

     Single- decimaled entries, often originating in Whiting (Wh) or Wilson (OW; see p. 23, fn.3), are from SPL. To save space, examples cited in SPL are normally not repeated (examples therefore begin with "Add:"). Double- decimaled entries, again often based on Wh or OW, are "new."

   • 2001 Richard J. Harris A Primer of Multivariate Statistics page 54

     simplified, substantively interpretable versions of the optimal (but many-decimaled) linear combinations of your original variables

   • 2015 Brad Knickerbocker, It’s Pi Day! Let’s have some pie. Christian Science Monitor

     So naturally, 3/14 – the 14th of March – is celebrated as “Pi Day.” And since 3.14 is the beginning, not the end of Pi – it can be decimaled on out to infinity – and since the next two numbers are 1 and 5 voila! today’s date 3/14/15 is really special.

• decimaled
• decimalic
• decimalite

• base
• binary
• octal
• duodecimal
• hexadecimal
• vigesimal
• sexagesimal

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Borrowed from Late Latin decimalis, from Latin decimus.

decimal m or f (plural decimais, comparable)

1. (arithmetic, computing) decimal (concerning numbers expressed in decimal or calculations using decimal)

decimal m (plural decimais)

1. (countable) decimal (number expressed in the decimal system)

• decimo

Borrowed from Late Latin decimalis, from Latin decimus.

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /deθiˈmal/, [d̪eθiˈmal]
• (Latin America) IPA^(key): /desiˈmal/, [d̪esiˈmal]

decimal (plural decimales)

1. decimal

• décimo

• “decimal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

decimal

1. decimal (using ten digits 0-9)

• decimalbråk
• decimalkomma
• decimalsystem

• binär
• oktal
• hexadecimal

decimal c

1. a decimal place (digits expressing decimal fractions)