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The number occurring after nine and before eleven, represented in Arabic numerals (base ten) as 10 and in Roman numerals as X.
numeral
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The number occurring after nine and before eleven, represented in Arabic numerals (base ten) as 10 and in Roman numerals as X.
There is a melody upon the Earth as though ten thousand streams all sang together for their homes that they had forsaken in the hills.
A ten frame is a simple graphic tool that allows people to “see” numbers.
Etymology
PIE word *déḱm̥ From Middle English ten, tene, from Old English tīen, from Proto-West Germanic *tehun, from Proto-Germanic *tehun, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥. Cognate with Scots ten, tene (“ten”), West Frisian tsien (“ten”), Saterland Frisian tjoon (“ten”), North Frisian tiin (“ten”). See also teen.
noun
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A set or group with ten elements.
We divided the chocolates into tens to hand out to Hallowe'en visitors.
They can readily state the number of tens in a hundred. But somehow they do not have a full appreciation of the "tenness" of our system and how the system is structured.
Understanding that numbers are composed of tens and ones is an important foundational concept, setting the stage for work with larger numbers.
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An inexact quantity, typically understood to be between 20 and 100.
Our houses are tens of meters apart, so we don't have to worry about noise from our neighbours.
tens of thousands of voters
No trees have grown on the windswept Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean for tens of thousands of years — just shrubs and other low-lying vegetation. That’s why a recent arboreal discovery nearly 20 feet (6 meters) beneath the ground caught researchers’ attention.
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A card in a given suit with a value of ten.
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A denomination of currency, such as a banknote, with a value of ten units.
Can you give me two tens for this twenty?
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slangA perfect specimen, (particularly) a physically attractive person.
An Office Ten is a person who falls somewhere between average to mildly good-looking in the world at large but skyrockets to wildly attractive within the confines of an open-concept desk plan.
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slangA high level of intensity.
"Intensities in 10 Cities"
... Marty Di Bergi (Rob Reiner): "Why don't you just make ten louder, and make ten be the top number?" Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest): "These go to eleven."
... Wayne Campbell (Mike Myers): "You guys kick ass. You're Double Live Gonzo. Intensities in 10 Cities. Live at Budokan."
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The act of rowing ten strokes flat out.
At the 1,000-metres post we gave a ten, which raised our lead to 1⅔ lengths; the Belgians were rowing hard, but one felt that they still had plenty of spurting power.
Morris gave a ten, and an unbelievable surge ran through the boat, one that I had never felt before.
Forms
- plural
- tens
ten · The number occurring after nine and before eleven, represented in Arabic numerals (base ten) as 10 and in Roman numerals as X.
tenant · One who holds a lease (a tenancy).Tenant · A surname.tend · To make a tender of; to offer or tender.