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  1. noun The cardinal number equal to 9 + 1.
  2. noun The tenth in a set or sequence.
  3. noun Something having ten parts, units, or members.

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  • I would start by asking people to rate their happiness between one and ten, which is kind of inherently absurd. —  Jonathan Harris collects stories
  • Transient fields a billion times stronger than those that propel our starships will be applied in sequence to send its ten-gram bullets at ten times the speed of ... I mean to a gamma of ten, that is to say to a speed so relativistic that they'll hit with ten times the mass they really have. —  Analog, July-August 2006
  • Governance has been on the tip of the tongue for at least five years now in our space, but it may fade only to be rediscovered under a new name ten years from now. —  frogpond
  • Filmbrain's top ten, that is, his choices from the pool of films that actually screened in theaters in the US, is up, led by the "fillet of the year," —  GreenCine Daily
  • Ambrose Heron offers a sneak peak - the top ten, that is - of Sight & Sound's poll of 50 critics, who've each named their five favorite films of 2008. —  GreenCine Daily
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old English tīen; see dekm̥ in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English ten, tene, from Anglo-Saxon tēn, tién, tēne = Old Saxon tehan = OFries. tian, tien = Dutch tien = Middle Low German tein, Low German tien = Old High German zehan, Middle High German zehen, zen, German zehn = Icelandic tīn = Danish ti = Swedish tio = Irish Gaelic deich = Welsh deg = Gothic (Moesogothic) taihun = Latin decem (later Italian dicce, dieci = Spanish diez = Portuguese dez = French dix) = Greek δέκα = Sanskrit dáça, ten. Hence ult. -teen, teens, -ty.
 

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