Definition of "tenth" []

• The ordinal number matching the number ten in a series. (noun)
• One of ten equal parts. (noun)

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• "I am puzzled by your comment about Congress working only on "proposed" budgets; that may be how it is taught in tenth grade American Government, but that sure doesn't represent how it works in practice - there are numerous examples every year of proposed budgets being altered by Congress (both up and down)."
• "While looking for something this evening, I stumbled on a box of old high school documents and had nearly forgotten these haiku I wrote in tenth grade:"
• "To those of you who spend your afternoons conducting doctoral seminars on the idea of the body in tenth century poetry, my excitement probably seems a little pathetic."