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   decade

   /ˈdɛkeɪd/

   noun

   • 1. a period of ten years: "he taught at the university for nearly a decade"
   • ▪ a period of ten years beginning with a year ending in 0: "the fourth decade of the nineteenth century"
   • 2. each of the five divisions of each chapter of the rosary: "a local priest led the mourners in a decade of the rosary"
   • 3. a range of electrical resistances, frequencies, or other quantities spanning from one to ten times a base value: "power per decade of frequency"

   Word Origin late Middle English (denoting each of ten parts of a literary work): via Old French and late Latin from Greek deka ‘ten’. decade (sense 1) dates from the early 17th century.

   Derivatives

   • 1. decadal adjective

   Scrabble Points: 10

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