- ... currency - Of the base ten - Of or pertaining to decimals; numbered or proceeding by
tens; having a tenfold increase or decrease, each unit being ten times
the unit next smaller; as, decimal notation; a decimal coinage. - A number expressed in the scale of tens; specifically, and
almost exclusively, used as synonymous with a decimal fraction.
- The decimal point; the dot placed at the left of a
decimal fraction, to separate it from the whole number which it
follows. The term is sometimes also applied to other marks of
separation.
- A primitive word, from which spring other words; a radical;
a root; an etymon. - A number or quantity which is arbitrarily made the
fundamental number of any system; a base. Thus, 10 is the radix, or
base, of the common system of logarithms, and also of the decimal
system of numeration. - A finite expression, from which a series is derived. - The root of a plant.