Definition of "tenth part" []

• A tenth part; one part in ten equal parts (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Branitz was only about a tenth part the size of Muskau, and stood in the midst of a sandy waste, but at more than sixty years of age the prince set himself, with all the ardour of youth, to conjure a paradise out of the wilderness."
• "If the testator has no children at all, he may select and give to any one whom he pleases the tenth part of the property which he has acquired; but let him not be blamed if he gives all the rest to his adopted son, and makes a friend of him according to the law."
• "Re-mem-bur the price is only one cent, the tenth part of a dime, or twenty pins, no bent ones taken."