See Also: decade(medicine)
decade(dictionary)
decade(dictionary)

decade (iou)



decade noun. . LME.
[Old & mod. French decade from late Latin decas, decad-: see DECAD noun1.]
Each of ten books or parts of a single literary work. LME.
Ld Macaulay As hopelessly lost as the second decade of Livy.
A group or series of ten; spec. each of the five divisions of each chapter of the rosary. L16.
(The predominant sense.) A period of ten years. E17.
M. L. King The decade of 1955 to 1965 with its constructive elements misled us.
b. French History. A period of ten days, substituted for a week in the French Republican calendar of 1793. L18.
(A range of quantities spanning) a power of ten. Freq. used attrib. to denote sets of resistors or other electrical components providing values of resistance ranging from one to ten times a base value. E20.