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Decimal :: Decimal (a.) 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..

Duodenary :: Duodenary (a.) Containing twelve; twelvefold; increasing by twelves; duodecimal.

Second :: Second (a.) In the duodecimal system of mensuration, the twelfth part of an inch or prime; a line. See Inch, and Prime, n., 8..

Snook :: Snook (n.) A large perchlike marine food fish (Centropomus undecimalis) found both on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of tropical America; -- called also ravallia, and robalo..

Repeater :: Repeater (n.) See Circulating decimal, under Decimal..

Radix :: Radix (n.) 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..

Scale :: Scale (n.) A basis for a numeral system; as, the decimal scale; the binary scale, etc..

Mantissa :: Mantissa (n.) The decimal part of a logarithm, as distinguished from the integral part, or characteristic..

Duodecimal :: Duodecimal (n.) A twelfth part; as, the duodecimals of an inch..

Repetend :: Repetend (n.) That part of a circulating decimal which recurs continually, ad infinitum: -- sometimes indicated by a dot over the first and last figures; thus, in the circulating decimal .728328328 + (otherwise .7/8/), the repetend is 283..

Separatrix :: Separatrix (n.) 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..

Octa- :: Octa- () A combining form meaning eight; as in octodecimal, octodecimal, octolocular..

Prime :: Prime (a.) An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system; -- denoted by [']. See 2d Inch, n., 1..

Sea Pike :: Sea pike () A large serranoid food fish (Centropomus undecimalis) found on both coasts of America; -- called also robalo.

Inch :: Inch (n.) A measure of length, the twelfth part of a foot, commonly subdivided into halves, quarters, eights, sixteenths, etc., as among mechanics. It was also formerly divided into twelve parts, called lines, and originally into three parts, called barleycorns, its length supposed to have been determined from three grains of barley placed end to end lengthwise. It is also sometimes called a prime ('), composed of twelve seconds (''), as in the duodecimal system of arithmetic..

Decimal :: Decimal (n.) A number expressed in the scale of tens; specifically, and almost exclusively, used as synonymous with a decimal fraction..

Period :: Period (n.) One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed at regular intervals, as in numeration, in the extraction of roots, and in circulating decimals..

Duodecimal :: Duodecimal (a.) Proceeding in computation by twelves; expressed in the scale of twelves.

Decimalism :: Decimalism (n.) The system of a decimal currency, decimal weights, measures, etc..

Decimalize :: Decimalize (v. t.) To reduce to a decimal system; as, to decimalize the currency..

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