one tenth

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See also: one-tenth

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one tenth (1/10)

  1. rare spelling of one-tenth.
  2. A minuscule amount, in comparison to something or someone else.
    • 1998, CD Moulton, Robert Cole Todd/Space Services Collector's edition, page 3:
      He wanted to be one tenth the man and the Spacer M'tai had been – or any of those great pioneers.
    • 2013, John Dann MacDonald, A Purple Place for Dying, page 93:
      You are a physical man, and in the best sense of being a man, you are not one tenth the man my brother was.